Reply #106: All that proves is that 45% of Americans slept through high school

[Lydia Leftcoast]

You'll get the same kinds of figures if you ask the average American basic facts about history, geography, or other areas of science.

The churches that explicitly teach creationism include only the fundamentalists and the more conservative evangelicals. Only about 1/3 of Americans belong to any kind of evangelical/fundamentalist church (not all of which reject evolution). None of the mainstream Protestant churches reject evolution, nor do the Catholics or Eastern Orthodox.

Wherever the 45% are getting their idiocy from, they're not getting it from the mainstream churches. You could say that maybe 33% of Americans at MOST are getting it in from their free-lance fundie churches, but that doesn't account for the remaining 12%.