If Genesis is BS, what DID happen?

[Aegrus]

What we need is more money towards research and education... EVERYWHERE!

Even more money towards education is a total waste with the contemporary attitudes towards education and parenting by the parents. Today there are considerably less pupils and students per taxpayer than there were, say, 40 years ago. Yet the education budgets have never been higher! So the education cost per pupil/student has soared! Completely out of control, imo, because the education levels pupils/students achieve, on average, have not risen accordingly, or even noticeably. At all!

It's high time parents paid more attention to their own kids (' education) and got involved.
It's cheaper and more effective too than simply pumping still more anonymous (tax) money into the education system.

Agreed, the budget is not the problem. Where I live, (northwest USA), people's beliefs are so convoluted that they reject basic scientific fact (such as the fact that cells exist) and substitute superstition, even after being taught the real answers. It's as if many people here think that human bodies are filled with fluff and magic. They have no idea how much scientists know, or how much they depend on scientists.

It's appalling. But it's not the school's fault- their parents pump them full of garbage before they ever get near a science book, so they just never consider alternatives.