This article written by Katha Pollitt on June 21, 2012 is an interesting read. It was first published in The Nation. Basically, the article’s message is that rejecting evolution expresses more than an inability to think critically; it relies on a fundamentally paranoid worldview.
“Do you know what the worst thing about the recent Gallup poll on evolution is? It isn’t that 46 percent of respondents are creationists (“God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last ten thousand years or so”). Or that 32 percent believe in “theistic evolution” (“Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process”). Or that only 15 percent said humans evolved and “God had no part in this process.” It isn’t even that the percentage of Americans with creationist views has barely budged since 1982, when it was 44 percent, with a small rise in the no-God vote (up from 9 percent) coming at the expense of the divine-help position (down from 38 percent). Or that 58 percent of Republicans are creationists, although that does explain a lot.”
“Why does it matter that almost half the country rejects the overwhelming evidence of evolution, with or without the hand of God?”
