Today's New York Times* has an article by Laurie Goodstein on the results of surveys conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. The title of the article is "Teaching of Creationism Endorsed in New Survey", although there are several components to the survey (which are also reported in the article), including correlations of the reported beliefs with political party support, etc, religion and politics, gays and lesbians in the military, Intelligent Design, and lots of other good stuff. My immediate impression is: Yes, we have our work cut out for us in this Science Education quest to which I referred in a recent post. You should read the article in full, but here are a few extracts which speak to the science education issue that is the subject of this post:
42 percent of respondents held ...
