Evolve

The dumbing-down of America is official. We are now ranked above only Turkey in a survey of European and North American countries on the theory of evolution. In fact the study suggests that fundamentalism is what drives the low numbers.

Among the factors contributing to America's low score are poor understanding of biology, especially genetics, the politicization of science and the literal interpretation of the Bible by a small but vocal group of American Christians, the researchers say.

“American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalist, which is why Turkey and we are so close,” said study co-author Jon Miller of Michigan State University.

Not only that, but in a related genetics "pop quiz" of sorts Americans garnered a median score of 40%. That's, what? An F-?
So much for "No Child Left Behind." It appears we've left a bunch of adults behind.