"More importantly, where have we failed as educators? It is all too easy to blame all of this on the Christian Right or fundamentalists. But if the surveys are right and around 50% of Americans do not accept evolution, then 50% of Americans do not accept geology, physics, archeology and a host of other sciences. Most of these people are high school graduates and a good number have college degrees. What kind of science education did they have? Evolution is somewhat abstract in the sense that you can not see or feel it; rocks, however, are not. Strata are visible to all.
Most of these people have had science in high school or college. However, if someone tells them that it is all nonsense and the world was created 5000 years ago, they believe it. One has to wonder about the quality of science education in this country.
Given Bush's latest statement one also has to wonder about the quality of science education at Andover and Yale."