Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report

cremeglace writes "In an unusual last-minute edit that has drawn flak from the White House and science educators, a federal advisory committee omitted data on Americans' knowledge of evolution and the Big Bang from a key report. The data shows that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to accept that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang."

Re:Warm, salty, gritty...

[Foobar of Borg]

Yes, your post is primordial slime. It's not like it was intelligently designed.

Re:They explain why

[Chris Burke]

Nice try, but I'm not getting suckered into RTFA that easily!

Re:They explain why

[spun]

I thought "Choking the Beast" was some sort of Republican sex act, like the "wide stance" or the "lesbian bondage club."

Re:But it is sooo simple to understand

[WrongSizeGlass]

I think you forgot to mention how Al Gore and the Internet made all of this possible. I'm sure Apple had something to do with it, too, but that's another thread entirely.

Let's face it, atoms do show up out of thin air. How else can you explain the weight I've put on lately? Damn new heavy elements. I sure wish those scientist types would stop discovering them.

Re:They explain why

[feepness]

Unfortunately not. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is locked away in an insane asylum because he talks about things no one else can even conceive of.

They have to catch him first.

HAPPY TROLL DAY EVERYONE

[Anonymous Coward]

Evolution and the Big Bang in the U.S.A. Slashdot must be celebrating International Troll Story Day

Re:Something I've noticed...

[Anonymous Coward]

Where is the evidence that that happens more in the US than elsewhere?

We took a poll.

Re:Not so bad

[CorporateSuit]

Evolution: now this is different since it's a demonstrated fact.

No it's not. They've shown a microorganism getting over an allergy. That's literally, without hyperbole, the strongest supporting evidence they have, and it's completely unsubstantial.

Re:So?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but it's still not a *good* theory. You can use a quantum level theory to get useful results in much the same way as you can use a hooker to get your rocks off. I doesn't mean you don't feel some degree of grubbiness afterwards.

Re:They explain why

[mooingyak]

I think I'm one of a large group of moderate conservatives who believe that religion and creationism can coexist.

And then there's everyone from the babelfish school of thought that insist creationism and religion cannot coexist.

Re:So?

[Anonymous Coward]

The other European country