Tyson: U.S. science illiteracy a serious threat
and the results are obvious today, 1,000 years later. Food for thought, don't you think?
GREENSBORO — The United States has plenty of challenges in front of it these days.
The issue of greatest concern to perhaps one of the nation’s most well-known scientists, Neil deGrasse Tyson: Americans know far too little about science.
America’s decline isn’t unprecedented, Tyson said. Just look back 1,000 years ago at the Middle East, where math and science flourished in Baghdad. Algebra and algorithms were invented in the Middle East. So were Arabic numerals — the numbers we still use today.
But when a new cleric emerged during the 12th century, he declared math and science to be earthly pursuits, Tyson said, and good Muslims should be concerned about spiritual affairs.
and the results are obvious today, 1,000 years later. Food for thought, don't you think?