Creationism in the classroom.
NewScientist has covered a survey/study on how evolution is taught in the classroom (or, sometimes, how its not). Of the 2000 teachers polled, 16% followed creationism, believing that the earth had been created by god within the past 10,000 years. Whats probably more significant is the effects…
[..] about 12.5% of the total survey – said they taught it as a “valid, scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations for the origin of species”
[..] Teachers who subscribed to these young-Earth creationist views, perhaps not surprisingly, spent 35% fewer hours teaching evolution than other teachers
Not entirely suprising how America gets statistics like this, now, is it.
Tags: creationism, evolution, Religion
