(June 9, 2015 at 11:06 am)SteveII Wrote: The religious right would be an unmitigated disaster to public education? How are they messing up science specifically? What is the rewrite history reference? In 60 seconds I googled "What country has more scientific discoveries" and the very first article (fourth result) Forbes says that the US produced 40% of the world biomedical research in 2009 (the next country had 10%). I don't have time to thoroughly research, but it seems from a cursory glance that the 200+ years of heavy Christian influence in the US has us producing a large share of the world's accumulated scientific knowledge.
You'll probably find this linked Pew Research study interesting:
http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scien...nd-belief/
Quote:And while evangelical Protestants make up more than a fourth of the general population (28%), they make up only a small slice (4%) of the scientific community.
God's not doing the heavy lifting when it comes to the sciences. Even for those that are believers and scientists, their religion is in no way informing their science.