2/3rds of Americans want creationism taught.

I suspect that the polling question was worded in such a way as to appeal to the American sense of fair play . I suspect the "yes" response to a generic question like "If there is a controversy, both sides should get to make their case" would be greater than 2/3.I wonder what the response would be to a generic question like "Religious groups should get to use public school science classrooms as vehicles to present religious doctrines" ?This message has been edited by paisano, 08-31-2005 08:10 AM

True enough, but creationism or bad science in a generalized sense would hurt the profits of the tobacco industry, as well as the medical device, pharmaceutical, oil, and aerospace industry. Which is why, IMO, it won't prevail in the long run. Evetuually the cocktails at the club wing of the Republican Party will split from the religious right wing.

I can't completely agree with this. There are too many cases in which the physical application of mathematics (e.g non- Euclidean geometry and realtivity, group theory and particle physics) came well after the development of the mathematics itself.