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From the LA Times...
The thing is that this isn't the only thing many people are ignorant of. Every year they come out with surveys showing what people don't know about history, science, etc. I think that it's been this way pretty much forever. People knew more about the Bible in decades past, but they probably as a group knew even less about science, than they do now. I think that this puts the lie to the idea that a well rounded education is necessary for success. Either that, or they are interviewing the same ignorant folks for these surveys over and over.
But, according to a 1997 poll, only one out of three U.S. citizens is able to name the most basic of Christian texts, the four Gospels, and 12% think Noah's wife was Joan of Arc.Link via Kevin Drum.
The thing is that this isn't the only thing many people are ignorant of. Every year they come out with surveys showing what people don't know about history, science, etc. I think that it's been this way pretty much forever. People knew more about the Bible in decades past, but they probably as a group knew even less about science, than they do now. I think that this puts the lie to the idea that a well rounded education is necessary for success. Either that, or they are interviewing the same ignorant folks for these surveys over and over.
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