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Do you believe in creationism? If you do - then you're a retard. Now it's more than just a instinctive guess, there's someone who went out and took a look at how well educated Americans are. And the bad news is - the country is infested with retards.

From the NY Times: Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much

While scientific literacy has doubled over the past two decades, only 20 to 25 percent of Americans are "scientifically savvy and alert," he said in an interview. Most of the rest "don't have a clue." At a time when science permeates debates on everything from global warming to stem cell research, he said, people's inability to understand basic scientific concepts undermines their ability to take part in the democratic process.

Over the last three decades, Dr. Miller has regularly surveyed his fellow citizens for clients as diverse as the National Science Foundation, European government agencies and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. People who track Americans' attitudes toward science routinely cite his deep knowledge and long track record.

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Lately, people who advocate the teaching of evolution have been citing Dr. Miller's ideas on what factors are correlated with adherence to creationism and rejection of Darwinian theories. In general, he says, these fundamentalist views are most common among people who are not well educated and who "work in jobs that are evaporating fast with competition around the world."

The problem is, from my point of view, when retards are allowed to make critical decisions (usually involving voting) they only enable more stupidity to run rampant, and unfortunately there are too few of the smart people around to keep it in check. Now if only there was a way to keep retards from breeding as fast as they do... but apparently sex is about the only think they are really capable of.