This is the United States?

Three words - oh, my, God! Or maybe one - omigod!

And no pun intended at the time, but now it actually seems kinda witty. So let's pretend it was intended.

As a result of living in California, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area, I think I have a very skewed view of what the "typical American" is like. I find the information below to be outrageously shocking. Perhaps I should move to Canada...

from http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/02/evolution-fares-poorly-in-newsweek-poll:

The latest Newsweek poll included a variety of interesting questions about Americans and religious matters, including the not-surprising fact that 91% of the public say they believe in God and almost as many (87%) say they identify with a specific religion. But perhaps more importantly, Newsweek also asked poll respondents about modern biology.

Nearly half (48%) of the public rejects the scientific theory of evolution; one-third (34%) of college graduates say they accept the Biblical account of creation as fact. 73% of Evangelical Protestants say they believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years; 39% of non-Evangelical Protestants and 41% of Catholics agree with that view.

These poll results come just a few months after an international study was conducted to measure which countries were the most accepting on evolutionary biology. Of the 34 countries involved, the United States ranked 33rd. Only Turkey ranked lower.