I am going to be a teacher for a day

[popeyespappy]

Not in Louisiana.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...vives.html

I live in new jersey and creationist aren't common where I live, which is good, and Louisiana's actions are the reason I am leaving america to do research in another country(either Australia or japan still have yet to decide). If america doesn't want science I will take it else where(not counting where I live they want to learn something).

Regardless of what you may have read on the Internet neither education nor research is dead in the US. Seven of the top ten, thirty of the top 50 and 47 of the top one hundred universities in the world are located in the US. In the fields of engineering and technology the US has six of the top ten schools. In life sciences it is seven of the top ten, and in the physical sciences it is eight of top ten including the top six schools.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/wo...ld-ranking

As far as R&D goes the US spends the most on R&D period. The US R&D budget is 40% of the whole world. We spent the most per capita PPP dollars, and we spend the most as a percentage of PPP adjusted GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...t_spending

You may feel that you need to leave the US in order to pursue your career after graduation, but frankly just ruling out the possibility of work in the US is going to limit your opportunities rather than expand them.