The National Center for Science Education has launched a new annual award.
This crown of cluelessness, this diadem of density, this badge of bullpucky isn't awarded to just any Darwin doubter. The UpChucky is bestowed on that one creationist whose efforts in the preceding year would inspire Darwin (or any rational person) to "drive the porcelain bus".
Nominees for the inaugural award included....
Don McLeroy, the former chair of the Texas state board of education, for his longstanding efforts to undermine the teaching of evolution in the Lone Star state;
Ray Comfort of Living Waters Ministries, for his distribution of copies of the Origin of Species; disfigured with his own creationist introduction;
Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute, for his logorrheic zeal in reciting the "intelligent design" talking points du jour, and
Al Jazeera, for its wildly misleading coverage of Ardipithecus ramidus.
