Angus Reid: Canadians and Britons strongly believe in evolution, Americans not

[Donerail]

Americans tend to believe what they want to believe regardless of the facts, and then the people who ignore the facts try to meddle with education and make it so people are taught falsehoods. Not really news.

[Donerail]

I see no problem with this.

The issue is that people are stupid.

[Donerail]

In this poll, they give a cop out answer, and still 46% chose the completely batsh**t crazy creationist answer. Only 15% chose the correct answer.

That is quite sad, especially disturbing are the last two points on the graph.

We're growing stupider. I blame Snooki.

[Donerail]

They should also be teaching what the word Theory means in a scientific setting (and I'm pretty sure they did for me....I don't recall if they placed the word before evolution though).  But my point is that Mr.M said that the Fundies got a law past forcing teachers to call it theory, and that's just not true.

Not sure about up north, but in Florida state lawmakers don't exactly know the difference either.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/19/us-science-florida-idUSN1929595320080219