DenverPost.com - Diane Carman:
Quick: Define miosis and mitosis. Explain mitochondrion and chloroplast. Now briefly, what's RNA?
The biology teachers assembled at the University of Colorado last week for a seminar on teaching evolution know most Americans are clueless about basic science.
They find our ignorance exasperating.
But it also explains a lot.
With most people content with being scientifically illiterate, it's no wonder so many believe intelligent design is a scientific theory.
It unequivocally is not.
It's a religious belief, a political issue or an abomination destined to cripple Americans in global scientific achievement, depending on your point of view. But it is not a legitimate counterpart to the theory of evolution.
In the hall full of schoolteachers, graduate students and science professors, there was no argument on that point.
The debate instead was on how to overcome the challenge from political groups that want to undercut science education with their religious agenda.
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