[DoctorMichael]

They also won't allow their students to be taught nonsensical crap like Creationism.

[Seamoth]

Ah, but creationism is NOT taught in public schools, yet. People pick it up outside of school, because their own public school science education is so inadequate that it can be mowed down by creationist strawmen.

One way to remedy this situation would be to teach the sciences in proper order: first physics, then chemistry, then biology. In many schools biology is the only required "science"... parentheses added because only a caricature of biology (basically environmentalist scaremongering and an overly simplistic version of evolution) can be taught without a physics or chemistry background.

[raybbr]

What the heck does Creationism have to do with outsourcing engineering and technical research to China?

[kezekiel]

They also won't allow their students to be taught nonsensical crap like Creationism.

You'll get a lot more rigorous readin' ritin' and rithmetic at a Christian school than you will at one of our dumbed-down, PC, moral-equivalency public skools, and the Christian schools will actually teach the value of Western civilization. You'd be better off sending your kids to Christian school and teaching them evolution on the side than you would sending your kid to your local liberal reeducation camps.

[KevinDavis]

At least our students know how to put a condom on...

[VladimirX]

Religion is very important for self-discipline and developing a firm moral standard, but it shouldnt be allowed to mix with science.

I dont think devout christians are primarily responsible for this reduced inclination of high school students to pick science/engg in college.

Blame lies more with liberals who try to malign engg and science as boring and ill paying, even making drone professions like Law and accounting as cool, as they dont need smart inventors or geniuses in those fields anyway (which suits the liberal agenda of dumbing down people to the same low IQ levels).

Afterall, just pick any TV show, the smart Engineer/ scientist is usually typecast as a Geek and outcast, just like a religious person (as long as he is Christian, being a religious muslim is A.OK with them) is depicted as a bigoted and stupid redneck.

And liberals are the first to accuse others of "anti- intellectualism", and by intellectuals they usually refer to social scientists/liberal arts professors !