Isn't the headline very misleading?
If only 1,210 people out of 10,600 bothered to respond then that is just less than 11.5% of the people polled. If it is 29% of the people who responded then I make it 351 people out of 10,600. I might be wrong though since numbers is not my forte.
So, we should say that 29% of those who replied blah, blah, blah.
The main body of the text also says that it was 'education professionals' who were contacted, now this could be anybody couldn't it?
Wouldn't it be better if they had contacted 10,600 science teachers instaed of the 284 that they did contact?
As you all know, I have taught (and still sometimes teach) religious education, and I have tutored at uni as well, so I am quite involved in this area, and I have met very few real fundamentalists in person. The ones I have met tend to look at creationism as a philoophy rather than a science, or they tend to focus on the 'problems' with evolution' rather than the evidence FOR creationism.
IMO, the evidence for creation IS philosophical, and science classes must include practical experiments, so what on earth would the creationism syllabus look like?
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