Re: American Idiocy, Part 34
- From: Mitchell Holman <ta2eeneNoEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:31:59 -0500
saroman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in news:1125492706.319498.177470
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> OR: Why Americans are among the dumbest people on the planet.
>
> Aug. 31, 2005, 1:38AM
>
> Poll: 64% favor teaching both creationism, evolution
> By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
> New York Times
>
> In a finding that is likely to intensify the debate over what to teach
> students about the origins of life, a poll released Tuesday found that
> nearly two-thirds of Americans say that creationism should be taught
> alongside evolution in public schools. The poll found that 42 percent
> of respondents hold strict creationist views, agreeing that "living
> things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time."
> In contrast, 48 percent said they believed that humans had evolved over
> time; but of those, 18 percent said that evolution was "guided by a
> supreme being," and 26 percent said that evolution occurred through
> natural selection. In all, 64 percent said they were open to the idea
> of teaching creationism in addition to evolution, while 38 percent
> favored replacing evolution with creationism.
Since when did we start letting students
in science classes "decide for themselves"
what facts are?
"But teacher, I decided for myself how
many planets there are and what the boiling
point of water is."
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