45% of Americans are Morons

[Guynemer]

[chequita guevara]

I seen a pair a ducks once.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by Sikander
What's wrong with using a little intelligent design when building science classrooms? That way every student would have access to a bunsen burner, a sink and will have an unobstructed view of the projection scree.

Touche!

Gatekeeper

[Odin]

Most average joes who reject evolution either don't understand it, fell for the "it's just a theory" nonsense, and/or because they are religiously unable to come to grips with the philosphical implications of Darwinian evolution (that it, that there is no great metaphysical Meaning of Life; and that humans are just one species among millions, not the crown of Creation).

BTW: It's nice to see Sava back.

[Flip McWho]

The place where I see creationism discussed the most is on 'poly.

[Dis]

I believe all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.
That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.
There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream
and we are the imagination of ourselves.

But I certainly don't believe in creationism. That's just whacko

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Lancer
"45% of Americans are Morons "

I'd like to proudly state that I'm in the other 65%.

Hey Lancer, I feel sorry for you....

....the number of people who would rather assume you have no maths ability and/or are a moron instead of appreciate your humour is scary. Quite a haul.

[Addled Platypus]

creation or evolution

we are all the same happy go lucky family


Another good read:

"The Anthropic Cosmological Principle"

design before function or function before design

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by BeBro
At least 45 % of the UK's people are British. You can't doubt that.

Damn- where are they hiding them ?

In the centre all we have are Scandopop backpackers, factory sample Japanese coach tours, Aussie barmen and waiters and Americans looking to see if they have aristocratic roots.

Oh, and the occasional nervous Brazilian.

[beingofone]

My issue with pure science is that the approach to facts is with priori concepts.

For example - if the answer to faith and mystical experience was made a serious study, with experimentation. Why not take the lab coat boys up to the top of the Himalayan mountains and conduct a serious study.

Instead the trend is to grab some 900# tarot card reader or spoon bender as serious candidate for this type of 'research'.

In my experience this is the approach to all things spiritual by a great deal of the scientific community. So do I trust the scientists and all of their conclusions?
No, not completely, not about anything that is still hypothesis.

[Theben]

B/c scientists don't concern themselves with "spirituality" in their line of work. It's hard to quantify faith, y'know?

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Damn- where are they hiding them ?

I found proof that they are residing in little special houses, like this one.....additionally this guy is hiding behind one of those giant hats.....

[Mr. Harley]

Having spent the last 20 years in West Virginia and Kentucky, I fear I must concur with the survey. Here the numbers that support creationism are higher than 45%. They taught fundamentalist Bible in the public school system in Bluefield, West Virginia. The Junior HS required you to send a note to keep you kid OUT of it (they stopped the note bit after we had a little confrontation, and I asked sweetly "can you spell A-C-L-U." - well, maybe not so nicely ) Note, this was in the eighties. That's also when I discovered that Catholics weren't Christians...

However, Scientific ignorance is not the sole purview of the religious right. In the 70's I remember reading a poll where they stated that 65% of the respondents stated that they believed a Nuclear Power Plant could explode, as in like a Nuclear bomb (versus meltdown). There has only been one reactor in the US capable of that (a military one), and it was mothballed decades ago. But everybody at the time knew that Nukes were teh evil.

Ask Europeans about the risk of Genetically Modified Foods, and you will get a bunch of similar moronic responses. For example, one strain of corn has the genes for BT spliced into it. You and I can eat BT (it's a bacteria that gives caterpillars the flu, essentially) and have absolutely no effect. You can spray it onto corn directly before harvesting, and there are no restrictions on it (unlike with many insecticides). They had to fight for YEARS to get the EU to permit corn imports with the BT gene spliced into it. Look at the response of many Europeans to "Frankenfoods." Stupid, emotional responses to science fact are distressingly common.

[SpencerH]

Its been my experience as a scientist that for the 'common man' science and religion are the same things, i.e. belief systems. The condescending attitude by some poly-posters toward the funde's for their misguided but genuine beliefs is a symptom of those posters own ignorance.

[Mr. Harley]

SpencerH - is the condescending attitude due to the misguided but genuine beliefs, or the fact that the individual is willing to deny all facts, and refuses to listen to anything that differs with their "beliefs". And then these same people attempt to pass laws ignoring the reality and attempting to impose those beliefs...