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[kmusser]

The November issue of National Geographic cites a poll that states 45% of Americans don't believe in evolution.

*sigh*

Does help explain why Bush is doing as well as he is.

I suppose I should be consoled that National Geographic published a 32 page article that can be summed up as "Creationists are morons."

Thanks to blackpaladin for the new icon.

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[blackpaladin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one was nice and easy; with the exception of cropping the original picture, I didn't even have to modify it! Glad you like it.

Yeah, that article does sound kind of scary: I should track down a copy of it (I forget, does NatGeo publish online?) and read it. As far as the results, just remember this: think about how stupid the "average" person is. Now remember that half the people are more stupid than that. :-)

[kmusser]

Sort of - they publish different stuff online than they do in the magazine - though there is an excerpt here.

[b0rken.livejournal.com]

prabob and merry meet.

if you have access to a laser printer you can go nuts on ... that fnord poster from the now-locked-down interhemd.de would look ace 'rasterbated' at http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/default.gas ... i did one in yellow and the ink ran out! how ... appropriate

"belief" vs "acceptance"

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

what bothers me most is how evolution has to be something to be "believed" in the same sense that the creation story (which has no evidence in its favor except a 3500 year old book, and even the "divine inspiration" aspect of it has to come from faith as well) has to be "believed".

this isn't something to just say "well, they say so, and I believe". This is "here's what the evidence shows. here's what the fossils tell us. here's what the DNA is showing. here's the explanation that best fits the facts that makes no assumptions as to any sort of non-natural cause."

you don't "believe" in it. you accept it.

but i'm preaching to the choir here, aren't i? :)

Re: "belief" vs "acceptance"

[b0rken.livejournal.com]

Given the press that the 'Jedi' religious movement attracted, I wonder what the 'Hobbit' discovery ( http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/27/1098667841536.html ) will do to the Creationists take on things.

Re: "belief" vs "acceptance"

[kmusser]

Heh, yeah, especially considering most medical science, not to mention the entire discipline of genetics, is based on evolution.

[chuck-lw.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always the hope that a good portion of them believe we were created by aliens.:-)

More on this, to give you the *fear*

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/evolution.html

Re: More on this, to give you the *fear*

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

The most telling quote: And yet, the Discovery Institute's appeals to academic freedom create a kind of catch-22. If scientists ignore the ID movement, their silence is offered as further evidence of a conspiracy. If they join in, they risk reinforcing the perception of a battle between equal sides.

I've been following these idiots for about a year now -- http://pandasthumb.org/ is a blog with daily updates on ID papers and scientists taking them apart piece by piece to show not a single provable fact or useful (testable) hypothesis.