Unscientific American: US Almost Last in Understanding Evolution

Americans rank next-to-last on a survey of 34 nations' acceptance of evolution as a scientific fact. (See the chart, below.) Our awareness of this scientific reality has actually gone down over the past 20 years, no doubt as a result of the so-called "intelligent design" movement and other Christian fundamentalist campaigns. In fact, frequent churchgoers in the US are most likely to doubt evolution. How will their children - and ours - become the great ... Full Story »

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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Science is under attack. That seems factual to me, regardless of where one's opinions lie in the "debate" over evolution vs intelligent design. This article does a good job of showing the standing of the US in the world on this matter.

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