Drive a stake through its heart...

...please.
"Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the last decade, creationism has given rise to 'creation science', which became 'intelligent design', which in 2005 was banned from the public school curriculum in Pennsylvania by a federal judge. Now a battle looms in Texas over science textbooks that teach evolution, and the wrestle for control seizes on three words. None of them are 'creationism' or 'intelligent design' or even 'creator'. The words are 'strengths and weaknesses'. The 'strengths and weaknesses' language was slipped into the curriculum standards in Texas to appease creationists when the State Board of Education first mandated the teaching of evolution in the late 1980s. It has had little effect because evolution skeptics have not had enough power on the education board to win the argument that textbooks do not adequately cover the weaknesses of evolution.
Evolution as a principle is not disputed in the scientific mainstream, where the term 'theory' does not mean a hunch, but an explanation backed by abundant observation, and where gaps in knowledge are not seen as grounds for doubt but points for future understanding. Over time, research has strengthened the basic tenets of evolution, especially as advances in molecular genetics have allowed biologists to read the history recorded in the DNA of animals and plants.
In Texas, evolution foes do not have to win over the entire Legislature, only a majority of the education board; they are one vote away. Dr. McLeroy, the board chairman, sees the debate as being between 'two systems of science'. “You’ve got a creationist system and a naturalist system,” he said. Dr. McLeroy believes that Earth’s appearance is a recent geologic event, one thousands of years old, not 4.5 billion. “I believe a lot of incredible things,” he said, “The most incredible thing I believe is the Christmas story. That little baby born in the manger was the god that created the universe.” But Dr. McLeroy says his rejection of evolution— “I just don’t think it’s true or it’s ever happened”— is not based on religious grounds. Courts have clearly ruled that teachings of faith are not allowed in a science classroom, but when he considers the case for evolution, Dr. McLeroy said, “it’s just not there. My personal religious beliefs are going to make no difference in how well our students are going to learn science,” he said.
“Serious students will not come to study in our universities if Texas is labeled scientifically backward,” said Dr. Dan Foster, former chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. “I’m an orthodox Christian,” Dr. Foster said, “and I don’t want to say that Christianity is crazy.” But science, not scripture, belongs in a classroom, he said. To allow views that undermine evolution, he said, “puts belief on the same level as scientific evidence.”

Rico says these people prove that we descended from apes, just some of us haven't descended very far...