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 I'm a Brit myself, and I thought most people over here thought these views were outdated and lacked substance.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.

That is why religion and science cannot mix

If you mean people can't abide by both, I disagree. Science and faith are orthogonal. Science works with the observable, and faith works with the unobservable. Science has nothing to say about God, since God is (by most definitions) unobservable.

On the other hand, if you mean not allowing religious dogma to affect theories within science, well yeah. If only the ID folks could figure that out. Since science say nothing about the existence of God (or afterlife, or what have you), the only thing it threatens are a bunch of far-out stories in a dusty old book.

A book the loons seem to think they should interpret literally. Scary bunch, aren't they?