When religious beliefs interfere with the teaching of science the children suffer, as does the country.

A 2005 survey conducted by the National Science Teachers Association gauged how much pressure science teachers felt about evolution instruction in their classroom. Here are some results:

31 percent said they felt pressured to include creationism or Intelligent Design in their science classroom. Most of the pressure came from students (22 percent) and parents (20 percent).

30 percent said they felt pressured to de-emphasize or omit evolution or evolution-related topics from their curriculum.

85 percent said they felt well-prepared to explain the reasons why it's important for students to understand evolution; 11 percent said they did not.

19 percent said they de-emphasize or omit the term "evolution" in their lessons so as not to draw attention to it.

This is what has come form having an evangelical as President for the last seven years.

Faith good, knowledge bad.

The failure to teach our children "real" science is a form of child abuse. We are not preparing them to interact with students from other cultures. Our kids will be looked at as undereducated and misinformed. We may soon have to send American students to other continents to get a real education, instead of those countries sending their kids here to learn.