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And Sunday with a I've been feeling that way since that Detroit News page- creationism poll came out last fall. one story about how A CBS-New York Times poll said state residents feel that 55 percent of Americans believe about higher educa- that God, not evolution, created HARRY tion affects the humans in present form; 27 percent future success of KI RS BAUM believe that humans evolved, but their children. Columnist God guided the process; and 13 per- According to the cent believe that humans evolved and poll results, I guess God did not guide the process. I we should drop the Michigander thought my neighbors would have moniker and rename ourselves shared the same middle school lessons Michigasses. Because only 63 percent I learned about evolution, Charles of us supposedly agree that people Darwin, Clarence Darrow and the who have a college education are usu- Scopes monkey trial, but I guess I ally better off than people who don't; was wrong. 28 percent believe we can make a I still can't believe that a whopping good living with just a high school 37 percent of Americans would favor education; 18 percent agree that edu- schools teaching creationism instead cation is useful up to a point, but it's of evolution, as the survey claimed. possible to have too much; and only That poll was conducted by tele- 54 percent of us agree that everyone phone with 885 adults from Nov. 18- should get a college education. 21, 2004. Only 71 percent believe that it's But then it struck me — the use of important to have a good education telephones to collect data for the sur- to get ahead in life. veys. The poll was conducted by the How many of the initial phone Lansing-based firm EPIC/MRA and calls went unanswered? How many of based on phone calls to 1,544 people those who answered the phone had from April 1-25. It had a margin of caller ID? Shouldn't that be one of error of 3.5 percent. The poll was broken down between the first questions asked? I don't know of many people who racial lines: White-, Arab-, Native-, don't have caller ID on their home Hispanic-, Asian- and African- phone, if they even have a home Americans, but taken all together the phone. phony m answers were startling. My doesn't have caller ID, Detroit News columnist and editori- and she really doesn't need it. If she al page editor Nolan Finley was right: doesn't recognize your voice after the according to these numbers we're des- first three syllables, she hangs up with tined to become the new Mississippi a dismissive "No, thanks!" of this century. The education poll from Michigan We're not the center of the manu- totaled 35 questions and the results, facturing universe anymore. Those when printed out, came to nine factory jobs offered to those who pages, which means that those people wanted to skip the college experience who picked up the phone had a in my Flint Northern High School whole lot of time on their hands to class of 1973 are no longer there. answer questions from someone they If you seek employment with only didn't know. a high school degree or worse, your I hope I'm not wrong on this. If I chances of getting beat out of a job am, we'd better start learning some are much greater now because the foreign languages right now or we competition is much greater, too. won't understand our bosses in a few Findings of my own poll taken years. with colleagues and friends lead to ❑ Skill, Sensitivity and Tradition come together to create your special Bris. 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