Larni writes:
I've long laughed at many American people from the bible belt (sometimes referred to as Dumfuckistan over here) but now it seems I must point to my own country in derision.
Those kind of questions often get a majority which is just indicative of a liberal "teach all angles" attitude rather than any strong opinions on the issue. Ask "should time in science classes be taken up teaching non-scientific ideas" and the great majority would probably reply "no", thinking it a rather strange question with an obvious answer.
It's not the same kind of problem here as in the U.S. for other reasons. Two thirds of British teenagers do not believe in god and 59% of them think that religion does more harm than good in the world.
Article on survey
here
The most recent stats I could find for the U.S. was 84% of teens believing in god in 2005.
So, creationism has a problem in this country far more profound than whether or not it's on the curriculum.