[Alter Kaker]

While the Europeans build the Large Hadron Collider, and the Chinese are industrializing at the fastest rate in world history, American schoolchildren are being taught that the world was created 6000 years ago.

America is quickly losing its technological and scientific edge and it's apparent to anyone why that is. American students can't even get into American graduate schools.

[steve8714]

American students can’t get into grad school because they cannot read, spell, do simple arithmetic or think critically. Only fringies actually go for the 6000 year deal.
There is, however a larger question about the Hand of God in creation, a “design”, or blind chance.
Oddly, some of the same people extrapolating Darwin to all things cosmic are the same who built our current education mess, with the emphasis on sex rather than spelling.