[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yzgBj8deKE[/media]
This has been on youtube for a week or so, so I'm sure at least somebody else has seen it, but it just now came to my attention.
It's not particularly surprising to see this on O'Reilly, but I thought Ben Stein was capable of a bit more critical thought than this. People don't know dick about evolution and it leads to this kind of shit. Stein was acting pretty reasonably, but he obviously had no knowledge about what he was talking about.
These things don't require degrees to understand, but it seems like hardly anybody even cares enough to try to learn. I think this video (and the fact that he's making a movie) shows how people either don't care to teach or don't care to learn about basic scientific theories.
So...discuss the sad state of science education in America . What are your opinions?
This has been on youtube for a week or so, so I'm sure at least somebody else has seen it, but it just now came to my attention.
It's not particularly surprising to see this on O'Reilly, but I thought Ben Stein was capable of a bit more critical thought than this. People don't know dick about evolution and it leads to this kind of shit. Stein was acting pretty reasonably, but he obviously had no knowledge about what he was talking about.
These things don't require degrees to understand, but it seems like hardly anybody even cares enough to try to learn. I think this video (and the fact that he's making a movie) shows how people either don't care to teach or don't care to learn about basic scientific theories.
So...discuss the sad state of science education in America . What are your opinions?