Britons Unconvinced on Evolution :O

Slashdot reports "The BBC is reporting that more than half of Britons do not believe in evolution, with a further 40% advocating that creationism or intelligent design should be taught in school science classes. I'm a Brit myself, and I thought most people over here thought these views were outdated and lacked substance. None of my close friends give any credit to creationism or ID, but we're all well educated athiests so I guess that's to be expected. Maybe I've been blind to the views of the majority in this proudly secular country?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4648598.stm

Wow, I didn't think they were that stupid, I mean Darwin is British.

The issue the religious nuts can't seem to grasp is that science is always provisional. What there is are theories of varying accuracy and levels of confidence.

We don't know where life came from. We theorize. This is the difference between science and religion: we don't pretend to know The Truth (TM).

BTW, the question of where the universe came from, how Earth formed, and even how life first started, have diddle shit to do with the theory of evolution.