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We Suck

Or so says a new poll. (Actually conducted a year ago, but just published. h/t: National Center for Science Education.)

Only a tad more than one in four teachers really accepts evolution as scientists conceive of it: a naturalistic process undirected by divine beings. Nearly one in two teachers thinks that humans evolved but that God guided the process.

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