Is America’s antipathy towards scientific rationalism growing?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html

The other day, Huckabee said, “I didn’t major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them.” We’ve had a president in office for 8 years with a palpable animosity towards science. I’m now hearing more people telling me, “Who cares if China is going to beat USA in science—I’d rather see my children homeschooled in the bible. We don’t need science telling our children what to do.”

We’re supposed to have been fighting radical Islamism, where their young are inculcated in madrassas, and read nothing but the Quran. Are we headed in the same direction?

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