In short, a belief question is totally worthless in measuring American’s knowledge on the subject or the value of the theory. It’s a measure of a theory’s popularity.
Exactly. This kind of thing has been driving me batty for years now.
No question about science should be asked in terms of "belief". Science is not made of beliefs. It’s made of data, and theories to summarize and organize the data. Theories are invalidated when the data doesn’t support them, or when a better theory fits the data better. It’s totally irrelevent whether people who have no fucking clue "believe" or don’t "believe" them.
