I have only realized very recently that America is perhaps the only developed nation that still contests the validity of evolution by natural selection.
Off topic, but since im an American, i'd like to make a small correction. 'America', as in the governing body, does not contest evolution. Certain states, and more so, counties within the states, have tried to introduce ID as science. In no case did it succeed, and the one time it did it was for a very brief period and it was the Dover Pa. trail that over turned the school boards decision and fired the school board members. It is required teaching in all public schools(granted some schools may slack a bit on this), but it is required non the less. And all biology classes at the college and university level teach evolution so in no way are any of these institutions of higher learning effected by the small ID movement that plagues certain rural Christian towns.
Yes we are the nation where the larges amount of citizen don't believe in evolution, for a 1st world nation(57%),(
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Also, my theory is that the fundamentalist Christians out fuck the smarter people because we're busy in school, or in a library, or studying late night hours. They over populated the middle of the US with little ignorant believers...actually thats a hypothesis at best
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