I usually overestimate the intelligence of the American people. This is why I don't understand how reality TV can spawn sequels, much less attract advertisers. But I was unaware that more than half of Americans have a basic misunderstanding of some really simplistic science stuff. That's right, most Americans don't believe in evolution (or don't know, which is basically the same thing when you're talking observable phenomena). That's like not believing in gravity, which is also "just a theory" for those who failed to pay attention in sixth grade when they told us what the scientific method was and what terms like theory and law actually mean.
Maybe we should make a reality TV show called, "America goes back to the sixth grade," in which we have talented science and math teachers explain things like experimentation and statistics to the vast majority of people who apparently haven't cracked a book other than Harry Potter since they were twelve.
