Part 1
This level of science illiteracy may explain why over 40 percent of Americans do not believe in evolution and about 20 percent, when asked if the earth orbits the sun or vice versa, say it’s the sun that does the orbiting--placing these people in the same camp as the Inquisition that punished Galileo almost 400 years ago. It also explains the extraordinary disconnect between scientists and much of the public over issues the scientists think were settled long ago...
article http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/duncan/17535/
thanks Joerg
Posted by Stubbornson at February 23, 2007 03:38 PM