no surprise

But the American public appears to back the school district.

At least 31 states are taking steps to teach alternatives to evolution. A CBS poll last November found 65 percent of Americans favor teaching creationism as well as evolution while 37 percent want creationism taught instead of evolution.

Fifty-five percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form, the poll found.

it's because people, for the most part, are stupid. we are not objective thinkers. we are biased. we are racist. we are misinformed. we are afraid of change. we are so easily manipulated. and we need to be protected from ourselves.

and this is the reason why most "democratic" governments are not full democracies but rather partial representative democracies. why do we, the people, elect people into the electoral college to vote for us? why do we have a system where we, the people, do not directly elect supreme court justices?

because if we simply let a mob of people run this shit based simply on a majority vote, we would be fucked big time. because i don't see any reason why the "every home in america should be provided with hdtv and an air conditioner" bill wouldn't pass. imagine the "let's decide what to teach our children based on a majority vote" curriculum would include terrel owens, wheel of fortune, suv maintenance, and lottery tickets. when the majority chooses nonsense, the rest of us has to deal with it. because the stupids outnumber the critical thinkers by a whole lot and i'm seeing it more and more everyday.

note: when not-smart people say the smart people are arrogant and shit, well, there's a reason why and it's because they've earned it.