Josh Rosenau, the public information project director at the National Center for Science Education, has penned a thought provoking article well worth reading:
Especially in contentious debates over science and religion, religious moderates have much to add. When fundamentalists are allowed to stand in for all religious people in discussions with atheists, the conversation falls back into historically naive visions of a war between science and religion ...
For more than two decades, a handful of underpaid NCSE staffers (In fact, for years it was a single, dedicated anthropologist named Genie Scott) and expert volunteers have successfully thwarted the well funded, national efforts of the religious right to eliminate everything from evolution to climate change from the science curricula of K-12 public schools. Including, more recently, the spectacular victory for biology in Dover V Kitzmiller.