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Comment by Chris G on December 9, 2009 at 6:50pm

I thought Europe already out educated U.S. pupils.

Comment by Richard Healy on December 9, 2009 at 2:08pm

This might please you then.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8369172.stm

Use it as material to lobby your local school board. Europe is going to out-educate our pupils. ;-)

Comment by Chris G on December 9, 2009 at 2:05pm

That was a good show about the Dover case. I was alluding that because of this case and the demand to teach religion that many schools have simply opted out of teaching science all together. I have no evidence for this although I know a 13 year old who is in 8th grade and he just began to learn what he calls earth science - geology and etc. This is the first science class he has ever had. Science education should start in kindergarden.

Comment by Chris G on December 9, 2009 at 1:08pm

See Only 1.6% in the U.S. identified themselves as atheists in Pew Poll

Comment by Loren Miller on December 9, 2009 at 1:05pm

Here's a link to the PBS piece ... for some odd reason, I can't get it to embed here.

NOVA - Intelligent Design On Trial

Comment by Richard Healy on December 9, 2009 at 12:22pm

thanks Loren, I've uploaded the NOVA documentary, you'll find it listed under My Videos. Called: "Intelligent Design on Trial"

Comment by Richard Healy on December 9, 2009 at 12:20pm

Well I don't know if there's an official statistics on that, but it's certainly a matter of incongruency for the nation who took us to the moon and back.

There's that famous graph showing the U.S 39th our of 40 with 40% not accepting the evidence for evolution, putting you just above Turkey - an Islamic country, albeit allegedly secular - with a rampant problem of Islamic fundamentalism when it comes to denial of Science (It's the haunting ground of Harun Yahya who put of the now legendary "fishing lure" book Atlas of Creation


Here it is

Comment by Loren Miller on December 9, 2009 at 12:15pm

A companion piece to this is PBS's NOVA: "Intelligent Design On Trial." It runs not quite two hours and is nothing short of EXCELLENT.

Comment by Chris G on December 9, 2009 at 11:47am

How much dumber is the U.S. because of the hold Christianity has on education? Because of the creation myth and fear of Christian backlash for teaching science it seems as though science just isn't taught.