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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/08/2006 : 18:27:47
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002154704
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A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, "God created man exactly how Bible describes it."
Today, as in March 8th 2006.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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trogdor
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 03/08/2006 : 18:37:30 [Permalink]
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well Fuck, now I've gotta move to Canada.
This is proof (if anyone needed it) that the US education system sucks.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 18:52:59 [Permalink]
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And most revealing:
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Newport wraps it up: "Several characteristics correlate with belief in the biblical explanation for the origin of humans. Those with lower levels of education, those who attend church regularly, those who are 65 and older, and those who identify with the Republican Party are more likely to believe that God created humans 'as is,' than are those who do not share these characteristics."
So it's a belief shared by the uneducated, the religious, the aged, and Republicans. Luckily I'm not any of those.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 18:53:50 [Permalink]
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I see these polls and I wonder: what were the percentages 50 or 70 years ago? It might be that we're making progress.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 19:23:53 [Permalink]
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Got to remember too, that in their stupid little delusional minds, that answering with Evolution, they may feel threatened with burning in hell.
Or, it's just a lot of lazy thinkers.
That shitheel Bush....he gave credence to creationism to be taught in schools a few months ago, then just weeks later comments in a speech that students need to dig in with their math and science studies, for a stronger America.
Fucking incredible.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 23:05:31 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I see these polls and I wonder: what were the percentages 50 or 70 years ago? It might be that we're making progress.
Maybe compared to 70 years ago. Compared to 50 years ago, I doubt it. I think the higher birth rate of the Fundies will overwhelm us since they have so few opportunites these days to remove themselves from the gene pool before they breed.
What really frightens me is the prospect of the world's biggest nuclear arsenal falling under the control of a bunch of anti-scientific fanatics who believe the world is about to end or believe that anything they do is justified because god is on their side. This frightens me a lot more than the prospect of the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran building a few low yeild nukes.
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"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 23:23:03 [Permalink]
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What really frightens me is the prospect of the world's biggest nuclear arsenal falling under the control of a bunch of anti-scientific fanatics who believe the world is about to end or believe that anything they do is justified because god is on their side. This frightens me a lot more than the prospect of the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran building a few low yeild nukes.
The bright side to that is that they may not understand how to operate or maintain them.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 23:29:07 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
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What really frightens me is the prospect of the world's biggest nuclear arsenal falling under the control of a bunch of anti-scientific fanatics who believe the world is about to end or believe that anything they do is justified because god is on their side. This frightens me a lot more than the prospect of the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran building a few low yeild nukes.
The bright side to that is that they may not understand how to operate or maintain them.
All they have to do is get a few to launch. There is a long gap between intellectual degradation and thechnological degredation. |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 03/09/2006 : 12:35:25 [Permalink]
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| It's not very likely they will lauch nukes at USA. At least not until after they have tested and verified the construction of the warheads and delivery system at their back-yard test range also known as Israel. |
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