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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 12/04/2005 : 15:23:27
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A study was published in the Sunday 4 Dec 2005 edition of the Mobile AL paper about Alabamians views on evolution/creationism (ID).
Of 405 adults in Alabama (error +- 5%):
Which of the following comes closest to your view:
Evolved, not guided by god: 5 %
Evolved, guided by god: 24 %
Created in present form: 64 %
No Answer/Don't Know 7 %
Should evolution be taught in science class?
Yes 48 %
No 39 %
NA/DK 13 %
Should ID be taught in science class?
Yes 68 %
No 22 %
NA/DK 10 %
Should creationism (biblical) be taught in science class?
Yes 72 %
No 21 %
NA/DK 7 %
Do you believe god takes a direct and active role in people's lives?
Yes 90 %
No 8 %
NA/DK 2 %
Would Jesus approve of the American involvement in the Iraq War?
Yes 30 %
No 31 %
NA/DK 39 %
How much eduation do you have?
Less than high school 5 %
High school 22 %
Some college 37 %
College degree 24 %
Graduate work/advanced deg 11 %
Refusted to answer 1 %
Are you a born-again christian?
Yes 76 %
No 22 %
NA/Dk 2 %
Religious preference?
Souther Baptist 41 %
Other Protestant 31 %
Catholic 6 %
Jewish 1 %
Other 13 %
None 7 %
NA/DK 1 %
Sex
Male 50 %
Female 50 %
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I weep for the future...
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by Filthy
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Edited by - pleco on 12/04/2005 15:24:55
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
 Posted - 12/04/2005 : 15:45:53 [Permalink]
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| Holy crap!!! But the fact that 76% describe themselves as born-again christians probably means that it's not a random sample. I hope. |
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2005 : 15:52:30 [Permalink]
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What could anybody expect from Alabamans? I would never want to live below the Mason/Dixon line. I do not even travel in any of those states if I can possibly help it.
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"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
Giordano Bruno
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2005 : 16:44:39 [Permalink]
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AL has historicly been thus....,
quote:
Preachers and Dixie Hypocrisy
Alabama's Taliban
By J.L. CHESTNUT, Jr.
Two "holier than thou" preachers, one back and one white, visited my office on different days last week but on the same mission. The men are riled up over words I wrote about Chief Justice Roy Moore running for Governor on a 5000-pound statute or monument promoting the Ten Commandments. The white preacher also was not pleased with some words I spoke about Condi Rice on this show. The two evangelical visitors are, to me, Alabamas equivalent of the intolerant Taliban in Afghanistan.
I said to both preachers that Californians are often No.1 in making fools of themselves but Moore seems to brook no competition in his making of Alabama appear the most backward state in the union. I also said Moore has a whole lot of help and mentioned an online Alabama news group that once put out a poster that read, "Increase Your Child's IQ by up to Eight Points" and followed that with a poster calling for public execution of school children who commit violent acts.
.... and will probably continue on as such. Faith sucks.
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2005 : 18:25:48 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by ljbrs
What could anybody expect from Alabamans? I would never want to live below the Mason/Dixon line. I do not even travel in any of those states if I can possibly help it.
ljbrs
I'm an Alabamian, for your information. Born and raised. What do expect from me?
That is very closed minded of you. There are just as many idiots in other states as there are here (the idiots here tend to be friendlier on the surface). And, there are idiots on both sides of this particular argument, though I wager one side is far more inundated with them.
Statements like yours allow the opposition to point to us and call us arrogant snobs and dismiss us out-of-hand. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2005 : 19:48:06 [Permalink]
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| While I agree that there are proportionately just as many idiots outside of Alabama as inside Alabama, when it comes to the specific issue of science education American rural areas, particularly in the south, have statistically higher proportions of idiots. There's a reason the first state to start censoring and warning students about evolution was Kansas and not California or New York. I think (hope) that that's all that was meant by ljbrs's crass and over-the-top remark. Certainly California and New York have their own unique brands of idiocy, and there are indeed skeptics everywhere, battling all kinds of idiocy everywhere. |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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