Darwin’s bicentennial is in the news. He was born on this day two centuries ago. In this context, the results of a survey of public acceptance of his momentous discovery, conducted by New Scientist in 2005 and published in 2006, is now appearing in the media all over the world. The survey covered thirty-four mostly developed countries, including Croatia, and it offered three choices regarding Darwin’s theory of evolution: true, not sure, and false. When countries are ranked in terms of the proportion of people surveyed who believe that the theory is true, which serves as a proxy for scientific literacy, Iceland comes on top and Turkey on the bottom. Smack between Austria and Romania, Croatia is twenty-sixth in the ranking. For comparison with other countries that used to be a part of Yugoslavia, only Slovenia is listed, and it is sixteenth. In terms of other countries from Eastern and Central Europe, Hungary is thirteenth, Czech Republic eighteenth, Slovakia twenty-third, Poland twenty-fourth, and Bulgaria twenty-ninth. At any rate, the true surprise of this ranking is the place reserved for the United States: it is thirty-third just behind Turkey. Yes, Croatia beats the United States by no fewer than seven places!