LA 2009 Survery

So I came across this while I was surfing the LSU website yesterday: http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/2009/04/louisiana_public_policy_lab.shtml

Now most of it deals with the state of the economy in Louisiana which I do not feel I have any right to comment on nor do I really feel any reason to comment on. What I did want to comment on was this part of the survey: http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/2009/04/louisiana_public_policy_lab_gallery/pages/2.shtml

Yes that is right the majority of Louisiana residents favor the teaching of creationism in the science classroom. but more importantly is this part

Forty-percent of respondents said that evolution is not well supported by
evidence and accepted in the scientific community and 21 percent said they did
not know or were unsure. Thirty-nine percent said correctly that evolution is
well supported by evidence.

The majority of those who responded did not know that evolution is well supported by the evidence. This shows a major problem with our sciecne teaching in the US and more specificily in the state of Louisiana. Evolution is very well supported by the evidence so much so that 99.9% of scientists subscribe to the theory. While LA is not one of the top states for science teaching the United States it reflects poorly on us as a whole that we cannot even show our students how well supported the theory that is the base of modern biology is. Also I just wanted to say unless you have seen all of the evidence for/against evolution you should not get to decided what is getting taught in the science classroom. Although...