Chuck,
Deep down behind my lefty facade I am actually an optimist.
In that light, I indeed hope you are right.
I say hope, becasue I could trawl all around and find conflicting bodies of opinion vociferously, and often effectively, arguing both sides of the debate.
I will not agree with you however that getting legal challenges to theory is a good answer. Have witnessed it in the US with the legal gag on teaching the theory of evolution vice creationism or intelligent design. Lawyers are good at dumbing down the general populus.