Science Education and Religion

We have all heard the complaints about how U.S. students fall behind many of their foreign counterparts when it comes to science and math. This is, of course, bad news for the future leadership of the U.S. in matters of research and technology. But anyone who has taught courses in theology has probably noticed that scientific ignorance causes problems for theological thinking too. It has been my experience that the inability of many college students to understand that there is no automatic contradiction between Darwinian evolution and theism, for example, is in large part a function of their limited knowledge of what the theory of evolution actually says. Shouldn't we be concerned about scientific illiteracy precisely as theologians?