Standing up for evolution

The politicization of children's books has now hit the Origins debate.

Quotes and comments;

A. 'An award-winning children’s book was written by a man who said, “We have got to stand up for evolution. Lots of kids don’t know about it....” Chris Wormell, who wrote and illustrated One Smart Fish, received the Booktrust Early Years Award... The book is a story about a fish wanting to evolve into a land animal. [1.]

- ''We've got to stand up for evolution...'' Really? Is he forgetting he's just matter in motion, a bag of chemicals, a robot acting out the wishes of selfish genes?

Stand up for a mindless process of chance and degeneration? Human beings defending and celebrating the process of entropy? Sounds great; let the parade begin.

I once wrote a very similar story... the main difference being that mine was satire.

Sadly, the book radically distorts evolutionary theory... as it depends upon teleology and will. I'm sure this wasn't done intentionally, as it seems unlikely a book that dishonest would receive an award.

I guess his next book will be about a land animal that wishes to become a fish. (I can easily imagine that the final book in the trilogy will be about a human being that wishes to be an animal.)

Notes;
1. Children Propagandized Into Evolution with Fishy Tale Creation/Evolution Headlines 09/07/2010
2. Stand up for;
'To speak or act in support or defense of (a person, a cause, a belief, or the like).' - Wiktionary
- Perhaps Mr. Wormell isn't aware that the process of evolution isn't a person, a cause, or a belief. (On second thought, I could be wrong.)
3. The politicization of children's books is something that saddens me, but I guess that's to be expected when so many people think children belong to the state. (Is it my imagination or do most books nowdays seem to be written by political hacks?)
4. Richard Dawkins wants to make the teaching of evolution compulsory for grade schools in Britain. In other words he wants to use the power of the state to force his worldview on the general populace, to use political power to destroy individual conscience. [see ref. #1]