Creationist Science Text Book

[ccmanuals]

Big problem in Louisiana with school vouchers. I think Jindal screwed the pouch with that brilliant idea.

[Peerie Maa]

Sure did and Fundi's still do. I battle them regularly.

Does that mean there is another forum where you debate religion?

I'd be interested in seeing it, got a link?

[hanleyclifford]

Does that mean there is another forum where you debate religion?

I'd be interested in seeing it, got a link?

If you are quite determined to get yourself wrapped around the axle in fruitless debate.... http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/index.php

[DanSkorupka]

I recall reading a text in high school, stating that 28% of American adults surveyed believed that the universe was created within the past 20,000 years by a single higher than human being. Most European nations gave this answer in the single digits percentage wise.

Other options in the multiple choice questionnaire included; exploded from some sort of singularity between 10 and 20 billion years before present (standard "big bang" model),
the steady state eternal hypothesis (used to be the standard model before strong evidence favoring the big bang was published), the Hawking Open-Shut model (an extended derivative of the big ban theory that states the universe has existed in some form or another for eternity and repeatedly has big bangs and then collapses ("big crush") before bursting again, the bubbling multiverse model that states that there are about 10^500 universes that have bubbled from some primordial, possibly infinite cosmos, and finally I Don't Know/Understand.

The survey was conducted before the Obama government and therefore heavy opposition and counter education from the extreme right.
With the tea party, textbooks like those mentioned in the early posts to this thread, and unprecedented polarization leading to increased groupthink and increased prevalence of extremist viewpoints, it is certain and inevitable that today's numbers are even more dire.