elfs | The consequence of science illiteracy

PZ Meyers recently posted an article entitled "We are so screwed," which showed that the United States came in second-to-last (only Turkey did worse) on the acceptance of biological evidence for evolution. Traditionally Christian countries like Greece, Romania, Ireland, Malta, etc showed a much more comprehensive acceptance for evolutionary biology than the U.S. The Discovery Institute crowed about how this showed the American's "independence of mind."

6_bleen_7 has posted a lovely response. Are you familiar with the Duggan family? They're a darling of the Christian Right: mom, dad, fifteen children with a sixteenth on the way. They're homeschooling their children, and they're teaching their children young earth creationism and are opposed to that evolutionary biology stuff.

Prof. Bleen's response, being a graphic depiction of what would happen if young earth creationism were the standard mode of thought throughout the land, is devastating: