No, not all of them do. You would be hard pressed to find many jr.high biology teachers who believe what they're teaching as introductory evolutionary dogma. The people who are isnisting that it be part of a curriculum which isn't even at a level to introduce such ideas believe only in preserving their own positions in administration.
The academecians who believe this sort of thing are far distanced from our children in public schools and have nothing to do with teaching it at that level. It isn't overstating the case to say this at all.
The academecians who believe this sort of thing are far distanced from our children in public schools and have nothing to do with teaching it at that level. It isn't overstating the case to say this at all.
Sadly, you are right about this. Demographically, science education sucks. Here's a spreadsheet done by the National Science Foundation not too long ago. For those who can't read Excel Docs, here's the highlights:
29% of those surveyed believe that all radioactivity is man made.
57% think that Lasers work by focusing sound waves.
54% believe that atoms are smaller than electrons.
51% don't know that the Earth revolves around the sun in a year.
37% believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
In the two categories that interest us, 67% have never heard of the Big Bang, and 55% don't think that humans developed from earlier species of animals.
The methodology is listed here.