even though you'd think something as simple as this should have been learned by everyone in grade school, is that science isn't everyone's natural aptitude. It's not simply the fault of fundamentalists teaching the Bible in place of standard curriculae. Some people just don't understand simple scientific or mathematical concepts.

For example, back when I was married (to a Canadian) she kind of stunned me when I learned that she thought there was air everywhere in space. She'd never learned that it was a vacuum out there. Who knows, she may have been taught that at some point, but science wasn't her forte, and so that knowledge was lost.

Whereas I was brought up in a family that loved science, even though I also don't have the brain for it (calculus is just too damn weird for my mind, same with inorganic chemistry.) And so, I don't have a big interest in history, unless it's on ancient art and mythology of the Mediterranean, or the Connections shows by James Burke. Other than that, I could not care less.

So, if the questions above were on history knowledge, would that mean I am (and anyone else that's not a history buff is) an uneducated fundie?