America is being "dumbed down"

I can ramble on, but then I'll be accused of making assertions without evidence. So let me try to use sources. Texting "Students today have to learn proper English and texting lingo" That's nonsense. Nobody has to learn texting lingo in order to balance their professional and social lives. You can communicate socially with real English, but you can't get a professional job with texting lingo. "It"s like you have two languages in your head". Again, that's nonsense. If texting language is causing confusion, then it shouldn't be used or learned. It's not an official form of communication. Show me "ur" or "B4" in the dictionary. What amazes me is that previous generations were taught two languages; block letters and cursive. Those are official, yet cursive is no longer being taught in schools! . http://www.wvec.com... Our own Constitution is written in cursive, and yet, our schools are not teaching students how to read it! Religion and Science "The basis of Pros claim is that evolution = smart, while religion = dumb. " Evolution is based on scientific proof while religion is based on faith. Faith is just an excuse to believe something without evidence. If you can train your mind to believe things without evidence, you no longer care what you believe as being true. That breeds ignorance. Even though my opponent has shown proof that the percentage of people accepting evolution has gone up, the fact that the population has also gone up in the past 20 years suggests that the amount of people who accept evolution, is not on the rise. Compared to other countries, America is behind on evolution acception. . http://news.nationalgeographic.com... State of the Union vs. Super Bowl My opponent claims "The reason the Super Bowl has so many more viewers is because it is entertaining" That proves my point. Americans don't want to be educated, they want to be entertained. EDUCATION Although an agreed upon rule at the beginning of the debate was "No adding new arguments in later rounds" my opponent decided to add "education" into the debate arguments. Since he wanted to open up that can of worms, I will give sources of how uneducated Americans really are. . http://youtu.be... Bill Maher gives real statistics about how dumbed down Americans are. 50% of Americans can't even figure out that the old testament is older than the New Testament! In this Youtube clip, you will see people so dumb, they can't answer where the Berlin wall was built! . http://youtu.be... According to this New York Times Article, Americans are behind globally in Math and Science. . http://www.nytimes.com... This Huffington Post article also states America is lacking in world education rankings. . http://www.huffingtonpost.com... Here is a poll that shows 37% of Americans can't even find their own country on a map! . http://www.huffingtonpost.com... This poll shows that 51% of Americans cannot even name one of their U. S. Senate representatives. . http://www.clermontteaparty.org... Here's one that says 57 percent of Americans can't name any current U. S. Supreme Court justices. . http://www.prnewswire.com... This youtube video shows the ignorance of random Mississippi residences. . http://youtu.be... Even though more people are graduating High School and College, the quality of their education has gone done. When so many Americans are lacking basic knowledge as shown with the above polls, it's a wake-up call that what they are not learning in school, is the real problem.