I won't disagree with that as there are many aspects to education beyond the technical (literature, art, philosophy, etc). I used evolution as an example because the statistics were easy to find. I also find it strange that the Roman Catholic church can express an acceptance of it, but so many people in the US still deny it.

It's not the only scientific or technical concept that's grossly misunderstood in this country (or the world in general).

How about the false connection between autism and MMR?

I've removed other examples that tended to fall back on showing religious groups as particularly in conflict with science.

Here's a still controversial but areligious one: WTC collapse. A 'model' using chicken wire and gasoline was used to persuade a non-negligible percent of the population that planes filled with fuel crashing into the upper half of 110 story buildings would be unable to cause the collapse of said buildings. A fundamental failure in education has occurred when you get engineers accepting things like this.