It seems there is no working around learning to write and read properly. We've drifted away from this idea, which might lead to a "soft" dark age.
I think most people don’t bother to use the reading and writing skills they did learn, so I doubt this is as big a deal as people think.
More than half of the USA believes the Earth is less than 10k years old, and this has been true for decades. Being able to read isn’t enough, people have to actually do the reading.
This gives: 37% of Americans believing "God created humans in their present form", 34% believing that "God guided evolution", and only 24% believing "Humans developed without God".
> Creationist Belief Linked to More Religious, Less Educated, More Conservative Americans
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sneak · · focus · HN ↗
More than half of the USA believes the Earth is less than 10k years old, and this has been true for decades. Being able to read isn’t enough, people have to actually do the reading.
JumpCrisscross · · focus · HN ↗
Source?
I thought it was around that magic 20% [1] figure for which you can find support in America for almost any idiocy.
[1] <a href="https://ncse.ngo/americans-scientific-knowledge-and-beliefs-about-human-evolution-year-darwin" rel="nofollow">https://ncse.ngo/americans-scientific-knowledge-and-beliefs-...
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This gives: 37% of Americans believing "God created humans in their present form", 34% believing that "God guided evolution", and only 24% believing "Humans developed without God".
> Creationist Belief Linked to More Religious, Less Educated, More Conservative Americans
JumpCrisscross · · focus · HN ↗