some numbers that will depress you

from a study on religion from the pew research study:

life has
1) existed in its present for since the beginning of time - 42%
2) evolved with guidance from a supreme being - 48%
3) evolved through natural selection - 26%
4) don't know how life evolved - 4%
5) don't know at all - 10%

also, the vast majority of americans believe that liberals are going too far in pushing religion away from schools and the government (have they ever laid eyes on the constitution?! the government [and public schools are an offshoot of the government] isn't supposed to be intertwined and entangled with religion) and that the republican party is more concerned with protecting religious values than individual freedoms. i can't even believe the question was posed in this manner. the free exercise of religion IS an individual right.

bleh. stuff like this bugs me.