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While we worry about shampoo and hair gel getting zapped by an iPod by a passenger in the airline seat next to us, here is something actually worth a rapid heartbeat or two. A recent poll published in the journal Science showed:

A comparison of peoples' views in 34 countries [and] finds that the United States ranks near the bottom when it comes to public acceptance of evolution. Only Turkey ranked lower.

And this from the study co-author, Jon Miller of Michigan State University:

American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalist, which is why Turkey and we are so close.

So while other countries are cutting at the edge of science and stemming a few cells here and there, we in the US are thwarting such efforts, and even refusing to “believe” in such matters.

Now that’s terrifying.