According to Yahoo News, 2/3 of US adults believe in creationism. OK, that’s a little surprising, but also fair: probably 2/3 of the US is pretty religious and that means in most cases a creationist outlook: “God directly created mankind.”
What amuses me about the survey is that it opposes “Creationism” and “Intelligent Design” as though they were two distinct things. Participants were asked “Do you believe that humans evolved from earlier species, that humans were created directly by God, or that humans are so complex that something else must have created them (i.e. God, or maybe Xenu.)
So, you could really rephrase one of their subsequent questions “Which of the following things do you think should be taught in our science classes: “God,” “Something godlike,” or “Science.” If you chose “Science should be taught in science classes” you were apparently among the minority. Or, perhaps, just perhaps, the poll was totally broken.
I’m gonna guess it’s the polling. Because the alternative– that people don’t want science to be taught in science classes– is really just too terrible.
Secretly Ironic 