44% of people are idiots.

[Vette73]

Forty-four percent believe that God created human beings almost overnight within the past 10,000 years


and


"Among those with high-school educations or less who have an opinion on Darwin's theory, more say they do not believe in evolution than say they believe in it," Gallup found. "For all other groups, and in particular those who have at least a college degree, belief is significantly higher than nonbelief."

We need no schools, just more church.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Recent poll finds only 14 percent of Americans believe in Darwinian evolution

Holy crap..

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Recent poll finds only 14 percent of Americans believe in Darwinian evolution

Holy crap..

These the same people that put a Democrat in the President's office?

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Recent poll finds only 14 percent of Americans believe in Darwinian evolution

Holy crap..

Was their entire sample set taken in Utah or something? That's a frighteningly low number

 

[nwfsnake]

News flash: 50% of the population is below average!

 

[cKGunslinger]

Well, for some, believing in "evolution" means admitting that humans evolved from apes, rather than via some divine creation, and that is enough to make them dismiss the entire concept.

These numbers do not surprise me.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

troll post is trolling.

 

[BW86]

What makes more sense?

That we adapted to our environments over the span of millions of years or that some supernatural being created everything we see in 7 days....

:disgust:

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Cheers to Czar, Iceland has the highest number of rational people, GB, while not all that far behind has WAY to many people who are not sane.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune
troll post is trolling.

Flat earth truther!!!

 

[Babbles]

Massive facepalm.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Well, for some, believing in "evolution" means admitting that humans evolved from apes, rather than via some divine creation, and that is enough to make them dismiss the entire concept.

These numbers do not surprise me.

We didn't evolve from apes. We evolved from a common ancestor. Apes evolved on their own path.

 

[LTC8K6]

We didn't evolve from apes. We evolved from a common ancestor. Apes evolved on their own path.

That's why he put evolution in quotes, because they misinterpret it and think it says we evolved from apes.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: LTC8K6

We didn't evolve from apes. We evolved from a common ancestor. Apes evolved on their own path.

That's why he put evolution in quotes, because they misinterpret it and think it says we evolved from apes.

Fair enough.

 

[JulesMaximus]

News flash: 58% of all statistics are made up!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Well, for some, believing in "evolution" means admitting that humans evolved from apes, rather than via some divine creation, and that is enough to make them dismiss the entire concept.

These numbers do not surprise me.

We didn't evolve from apes. We evolved from a common ancestor. Apes evolved on their own path.

Shut up ape man.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: BW86
What makes more sense?

That we adapted to our environments over the span of millions of years or that some supernatural being created everything we see in 7 days....

:disgust:

Considering how many variables could be taken into consideration and how easily one or two things might have wiped out the entire species...

I don't believe in the 7 day theory, though I don't believe we did it all on our own either. No idea personally how it happened and I doubt anyone else can precisely say how we overcame certain barriers and reached certain milestones as a society to progress the way we did. Just a casual thought excersize reveals the enormous potential for extinction we as a species had over those millions of years.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Well, for some, believing in "evolution" means admitting that humans evolved from apes, rather than via some divine creation, and that is enough to make them dismiss the entire concept.

These numbers do not surprise me.

Indeed. They've been frightened/tricked into dismissing evolution out of hand because it's "incompatible with Christianity." Which is total BS. It's entirely compatible with Christianity. There are a lot of Christians who believe in evolution as well. You don't HAVE to believe in evolution if you don't want to, but it's not an either/or thing unless you're entirely closed-minded.

 

[The Sauce]

These number are up. I am encouraged. About 15 years ago when I was in college the latest study had idiocy at about 95%. It is the US, folks. The numbers in other, better educated countries are much better.

 

[AdamK47]

As we evolve into slobbering pools of fatty ooze piles we also start believing in unscientifically sound explanations. We lose things that aren't used during the evolution process and that includes brains.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: BW86
What makes more sense?

That we adapted to our environments over the span of millions of years or that some supernatural being created everything we see in 7 days....

:disgust:

Considering how many variables could be taken into consideration and how easily one or two things might have wiped out the entire species...

I don't believe in the 7 day theory, though I don't believe we did it all on our own either. No idea personally how it happened and I doubt anyone else can precisely say how we overcame certain barriers and reached certain milestones as a society to progress the way we did. Just a casual thought excersize reveals the enormous potential for extinction we as a species had over those millions of years.

There is a very important concept one has to understand to appreciate evolution. Looking backwards and trying to figure the odds is a fruitless exercise. In any sequence of highly improbable events there is an outcome and that outcome is one which (statistically) should not have happened. Looking at outcomes and saying the odds are so thin that it could not have happened without divine intervention is just putting faith into intuition over analysis.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: BW86
What makes more sense?

That we adapted to our environments over the span of millions of years or that some supernatural being created everything we see in 7 days....

:disgust:

Considering how many variables could be taken into consideration and how easily one or two things might have wiped out the entire species...

I don't believe in the 7 day theory, though I don't believe we did it all on our own either. No idea personally how it happened and I doubt anyone else can precisely say how we overcame certain barriers and reached certain milestones as a society to progress the way we did. Just a casual thought excersize reveals the enormous potential for extinction we as a species had over those millions of years.

There is a very important concept one has to understand to appreciate evolution. Looking backwards and trying to figure the odds is a fruitless exercise. In any sequence of highly improbable events there is an outcome and that outcome is one which (statistically) should not have happened. Looking at outcomes and saying the odds are so thin that it could not have happened without divine intervention is just putting faith into intuition over analysis.

I never stated diving intervention, I stated I did not know. Do you know precisely? You have just as much faith in a mathematical anomaly/improbability of occurring without intervention as people who believe in 7 days. Remember that.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Recent poll finds only 14 percent of Americans believe in Darwinian evolution

Holy crap..

These the same people that put a Democrat in the President's office?

christians are predominantly repubs.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

WhyTF does it all matter anyways?

 

[mugs]

Fortunately 99% of the population's opinions on evolution don't matter one bit. Not a scientist? Don't care.