I have to agree with Lighter and take it further...

I got my teaching certification in 1983 and we were already seeing a real dilution in the teaching of biology at the High School level. Where colleges have to include remedial biology in order to get students up to a level where they can actually start to understand enough to move forward.

We have seen too many voters who are single issue voters... electing officials not because they will do a good job, but because they parrot the correct phrases that push folk's buttons at the ballot box.

Creationists are the new Flat Earth Society... do you want your grandchildren being taught physics or geography by people who think the eart is flat and the Lunar landing was a giant hoax? Some of these poor deluded souls have moved onto other conspiracy theories... but these people exist and seem to swell the numbers of our current Tea Party... and look at what havoc those folks are causing our country.

Abraham Washington 1492 is not a partial credit answer... it's meaningless jibberish.