What specifics are you looking for? Do you want me to go cite the well-known examples of creationists attacking science curriculums? Do you really not understand why people care about what their children are taught?
I mean, I would agree that this is overblown. This is one of those issues, like gay marriage, that has been exacerbated by folks trying to rile up political bases. But that exacerbation has had real world effects.
I would surely agree that there are plenty of people, we'll call them all "Zitoes," who lecture with their butts about things they don't understand. But those people are just being stupid, not exercising a religious kind of faith. The word science literally just means "knowledge." The empirical scientific process is just a fairly simple means of compiling collective knowledge (look, write down, guess, test, repeat). Most people can understand that, and everybody can see the results. The faith is not blind; the faith is predicated on extremely strong evidence. This is true even for Zitoes who are always wrong about the actual facts. They can use their Android phones to look up nudie picks of British chicks eating mustard and correctly think "Damn, thanks for making this possible science." This kind of trust in the scientific process is induction, not faith.
Bedell is mostly just trolling these Zitoes anyway. He knows enough to know that they don't know what they are talking about, so he's just amusing himself to pass the time.
