{"id":1602,"date":"2012-06-27T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2012-06-27T20:48:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:48:16","slug":"where-are-we-going-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Where are we Going Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t speak for anyone else, but the latest Gallup Poll on the acceptance of evolution came as a proverbial “kick in the gut for me. Why? Not because figures have not really change much since 1982 (46% of the general population\u00c2\u00a0are flat out creationists) Not because 32% believe in theistic evolution(a God guided and directed the process) which is basically Intelligent Design. No, none of these. What pill I find hard to swallow, is that the figures are almost exactly the same \u00c2\u00a0for college graduates. Yup after sixteen long years spent\u00c2\u00a0at school and in\u00c2\u00a0our\u00c2\u00a0public and private colleges,US graduates\u00c2\u00a0still\u00c2\u00a0think the earth is less than ten thousand years old and the story of Adam and Eve is literally true.\u00c2\u00a0This is not the case in most Western Nations(US rates 37 in the world on the acceptance of evolution) So where is the US going wrong? I would like to\u00c2\u00a0hear any of your\u00c2\u00a0thoughts on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t speak for anyone else, but the latest Gallup Poll on the acceptance of evolution came as a proverbial “kick in the gut for me. Why? 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There will also be a question and answer session and a book signing. This is free and open to the public. 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Creationism is not going to get into the classroom, media folks. The Supreme Court has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":886,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=886","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":4},"title":"Problem with evolution surveys","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Good article about surveys concerning public acceptance of evolution. It's more complicated than the numbers indicate. By my calculation, that means only 22 percent reject evolution outright. That's significantly different than the newspaper's headline. 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