>> This is the thing that gets me. I'm less interested in watching a 2-hour
>> documentary about "he said, she said, they said", and more interested in
>> "why the hell do 50% of the population ACTUALLY BELIEVE something which
>> is obviously ridiculous?"
>
> In case you haven't noticed, the documentary does mention that hadn't
> been taught at US schools until a few decades ago. Which explains a lot.
>
> (According to Wikipedia, in the early 20th century, multiple US states
> passed legislation making it outright /illegal/ to teach evolution at
> publich schools, and in a provoked test case the legislation was ruled
> constitutional; according to the Nova documentary, this caused biology
> textbook publishers to remove evolution from the books entirely. Again
> according to Wikipedia, it was only until the late 1960's that said
> legislation was challegned again, this time with success.)
>
> With that in mind, the utter misunderstanding of the mechanisms of
> evolution among older generations of US residents isn't really that
> surprising at all.

Seriously? They made it illegal to teach people evolution? For 40 years??

Huh. Well, I suppose that explains it all then... o_O

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