Sitting here laughing! Very cute!
The assemblage of “evolution, scientific method, and reason” in the sentence was laughably blatant propaganda.
I agree with your post above. The failure of science education in the U.S. can be traced to the failure of math education, and to the anti-memorization ideology of the education establishment. There is so much to learn in any of the hard sciences simply to describe what exists and how it works, that claiming poor educational results are due to a failure of Darwinist zeal is simply absurd.
And for the record, I don’t “believe in evolution” in the sense relevant to the article, but I’m not going to have a cow over it. If it comes up in something my children are reading or watching, I’ll point out reasoning errors in the presentation, such as ascribing to personified Nature the very powers I ascribe to God, and then let them enjoy the animation or photography.