The stupidity in Idiot America is worse than what I thought was possible.

In 2005 a Newsweek poll discovered that 80 percent of the American public thought that "God created the universe." and the Pew Research Center reported that "nearly two-thirds of Americans say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools."

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Teacher: Explain why there is a universe.

Students: The Magic Man did it.

Teacher: Well done.

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80 fucking percent of Americans think the entire fucking universe was magically created by a magical creature with unlimited magical powers.

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Teaching magical creationism in public schools is a violation of the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights. Two-thirds of Americans didn't get the memo.

A much better reason to not teach childish religious fantasies in a science classroom:

"Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage—good teaching—than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?"
-- Stephen Jay Gould