Illiteracy, the severe lack of culture is at the origin of the problems in some societies (not alone or do not arise from other causes). In Islamic fundamentalist countries, the level of literacy is very high, and that explains a lot. The problem is that a recent survey shows that scientific illiteracy is very widespread in Romania. What effects would it have??
http://www.9am.ro/stiri-revista-presei/Incredibil/155835/42-dintre-romani-cred-ca-Soarele-se-invarte-in-jurul-Pamantului.html
I don't think the results are really that cruel. I was amused by the correlation between luck in love and luck at card games. I wonder how this applies to the books you write? In this case, I would have guaranteed a reason for joy from one direction or another.
What could be the causes of these results? Probably the poverty and the events of the last decades that overturned the values unbalanced the reward system of the people. Interest in science depends on some environmental conditions, that is to say, it's a pretty energetic and chronophobic game, which does not lend itself to poverty and lack of time. In plus, there are easier reward alternatives. Mass media offers easier entertainment, less demanding than scientific interest.
Sure, however, training no longer represents a source of moral and material reward. Another important phenomenon is school. Beyond corruption in schools, the quality of the teachers and the program, it is the confusion that teaching religion in a confessional way generates. When in religion, students are provided with very simple answers about the origin of the universe and of man, then in science classes they are offered others, things are becoming more and more unclear, and the students choose what is more accessible.
The results of this study should make the governors reflect more on the effects of religion in schools. I propose the immediate exclusion of these subjects from the school curriculum. I don't understand why there is so much reluctance to express this not only at the political level, but also from some NGOs. Careful! The study of the Christian religion, which is part of the Euro-Atlantic culture, explain the events of the last millennia, it is important for instruction, but not when it is taught like now. Christianity should be taught by historians or philosophers, from a historical point of view, not by priests. Freedom of religion would not only be unaffected, on the contrary, secularism is in support of freedom of religion.
