&#62; the reality-based community.<p>Ah yees, the folks who think that fire can't melt steel....<p>While evolution and age of earth are important, they aren't directly relevant much of the time.<p>If you're going to argue that competence outside of biology and geology depends on whether one believes in evolution and earth age, you get to explain why believing in ghosts and other such things doesn't have a similar effect.<p>And yes, ghosters and the like do push things on the public schools.