What's the matter with Kansas?

What's the matter with Kansas?     
Thomas Frank, in What's The Matter With Kansas (NY: Metropolitan Books, 2004), comments on the conservative strategies of the current American right, noting the connection to the Intelligent Design movement, bemoaning their refusal of Darwin's theory. But this view misses the point that liberal culture has been misinformed by the Darwin debate, and that these conservatives have managed to outflank the adherents of Darwinism. It is testimony to the tenacity of Darwinian ideology that liberal secularists, to say nothing of the supposedly top-notch scientists, can't handle Intelligent Design challenges with anything more than chapter and verse. A new liberal perspective culture is needed, with a better understanding of science, and this will require almost a revolution in our views on evolution, in order to bypass the clever strategy of the designists. Until then the conservatives are going to laugh all the way to the bank, because they have done their home-work on problems with Darwin's theory. Most secular critics are unable to handle the Darwin debate because of the propaganda on both sides, but most especially because of the dogmatic rigidity of current education on evolution.

From the Second Edition:
Toward a Secular Postdarwinism

Darwin’s theory of natural selection  borders on fraud, and is the original case of the crank theory. Looking at history in light of the eonic effect we can be finished with the question of Darwin’s theory once and for all. And can see why this theory is so badly off the mark, in the process freeing our sense of history from Darwinian  pseudo-explanation... A secular critique of Darwin for liberal culture is very much needed, with a reminder that Creationist critics are confusing the issue. The standard Darwin debate has settled into a ‘science versus religion’ routine designed to produce more noise than anything else. Darwinists need a reality check, and are living in a fantasy world where reductionist thinking has declared itself omniscient. more