What is 'qualified person'?

According to a study by University of Michigan professor John Miller, to be included in the category of 'science-qualified', one must understand at least 20-30 concepts or scientific terms. For example, they have to say what is the molecule, germ cell, neuron and nano .

Not only that, modern people of a developed country must also understand that the following concepts are true or false.'Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria', 'The first humans on Earth lived with dinosaurs',' The universe originated from a big explosion 'and' All plants and animals have DNA '. (of course only the last two concepts are true).

After exploring with his method, Professor Miller found that only 28% of Americans, 14% of Europeans and 5% of Japanese were thought to be 'scientifically qualified '. About the country, the leader in scientific understanding is Sweden (35% of people can be considered knowledgeable), followed by the US, the Netherlands (24%), Norway, Finland and Denmark (22% ) .

Although these numbers may not say anything important, but it shows significant progress, for example the United States in the years 1970-1980 only more than 10% of people are considered to be progressive in science. . Modern people are three times smarter. However, Miller also affirmed that the technical and scientific level of lower developed countries requires: up to 70% of Americans are unable to fully understand the articles published in the scientific journal of the leading daily newspaper. The New York Times, or even though basic science subjects are considered compulsory for American students, but in international Olympic competitions, American students often do not achieve high results.

In particular, according to Miller, American students do not accept the theory of evolution. Currently only 40% of American adults believe in Darwinism in terms of species origin, much lower than in Europe (for example in Spain, Denmark and Sweden, up to 80% agree with theory of evolution).

Lower America in this belief is only Turkey, but according to Professor Miller, the cause is because of faith. In Turkey, this belief is based on the Koran, while in the United States people believe in the Bible. However, in all countries only in the United States has a strong party (Republic) that does not accept Darwinism in all its political theories.

DUY VAN (According to Washington Profile)

Saint Petersburg Court on February 21 ruled against prohibiting students from studying the evolutionary theory of 19th-century English scientist Charles Darwin .With this statement, the court also dismissed a lawsuit: the 17-year-old Maria Shraiber sued the Saint Petersburg Board of Education and the Russian Ministry of Education to ban teaching Darwinism as an outstanding doctrine.

Maria against Darwin (Photo: RIA Novosti, TTO)

According to the plaintiff, considering the theory of evolution is mainstream has "offended religious sentiments" and prevented the rights of young people to 'have other thoughts about human origin '.In the lawsuit, Maria's female student claimed that Darwinian doctrine of human origin lowered human dignity, and teaching Darwinism was a violation of Russia's "On political parties" law, because the theory is based on the principles of atheism.

Responding to the court from the defendant, Saint Petersburg Education Commission representative confirmed that science in textbooks that Maria learned not only presents Darwinism but also many other theories, including spiritual creation theory soul (assumes that the soul is created by God).On the other hand, according to the Russian constitution, the church is separate from the state.Maria's teachers said she was not good at biology and she might be "against Darwin for not understanding Darwin" !

According to RIA