From the responses of the teachers who were studied, it really appears as if they have no idea what makes the theory of evolution "science," and what makes creationism "mythology."
It seems to me that the real problem here is in how we train our teachers. If a science teacher can only recite the material in the assigned texts, then there's no way to verify that they understand the material they are charged with teaching.
I ran across teachers of this sort when I was growing up. Of course, I grew up in the 60's and 70's, at the end of the Baby Boom, when teachers were in such short supply that complete imbeciles who were themselves barely literate were put in charge of teaching "Fun with Dick and Jane" to 30 kids at a time. We should be past those dark days. Probably WOULD have been had we no had this bloody "No Child Left Behind" BS to deal with.
But be that as it may... our science teachers in this country need major changes, and they need them quickly. We're already far behind the rest of the civilized world in science education. With a group like this, we will only fall further back.
