A BBC poll of 2,000 Brits finds that not only that less than half of the British public believe in evolution, but that more than 40 percent believes that creationism and/or intelligent design should be taught in schools, as part of the science curriculum (creationism should already be discussed as part of the Religious Education subject in most schools).

Like Derb, I consider ID to be fundamentally unscientific and have no desire to see it taught as a science, but this finding seems to me to be more indicative of something else. Despite the pathetic weakness of the Church of England and the supposedly Christian state, strong, instinctive religious feeling still survives in England. The candle that Latimer and Ridley lit is still burning.

Hat Tip: Mid-Atlantic, who notes that the BBC’s reaction might well have been different if this poll had originated in Kansas.