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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Oliver Jones
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by Oliver Jones - Oct. 1, 2008

News flash: it's damnably silly that so many Americans believe that Biblical accounts of creation have to be evaluated on the same modern criteria of truth as scientific accounts. But this article fails to address WHY biblical literalists have set themselves so intensively against science. Isn't it better to try to bridge this gap than just to curse it?

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