"How is creationism growing in the US? It seems as science advances, the religious just get dumber."
Here in Idiot America religious extremism is about equal to the Muslim theocracies. Muslims, including the terrorists, are evolution deniers just like the American Christians. Your "the religious just get dumber" answers your question. The creationists are uneducated morons. And they go out of their way to stay uneducated. They know nothing about the science that makes them cry. Their disease is incurable. Stupid can't be fixed.
A big problem in Idiot America is science education. It sucks. A survey showed that most American high school biology teachers can not competently teach evolution, and a large number of these worthless teachers completely avoid talking about evolution even though it's the foundation of biology. They fear harassment and threats from Christian ASSHOLES. The students are cheated. Biology without evolution is boring. Students learn how to hate science instead of loving science.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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