A new poll quoted in the New York Times has found that 42 percent of Americans hold “strict creationist views, agreeing that “living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”
And if that’s not an indictment of the American education system I don’t know what is.
Mr. Bush prides himself on being an ‘education president’. Given his recent, um, interventiom in the evolution ‘controversy’ it would be interesting to know his response to this poll.