continental drift

tags: continental drift, geology, earth science, streaming video This video shows how the continents have split apart and drifted around the globe. Further, it also shows their predicted movements in the future [1:20]

The American Association of Physics Teachers just published a study of 1,000 likely U.S. voters about science, religion, evolution, and creationism. The results are frightening. Here are some of the "highlights" of their study: 38% of Americans are in favor of the teaching of religion in public school science classrooms. 65% of Americans do not think that it is an important science goal to understand the origin and diversity of biological life on Earth. 47% of Americans believe that the earliest humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. 21% of Americans do not believe that the…