Because Bible.Nightshade wrote:I've met a few smart people that cling to Creationism, makes ZERO sense to me.
Pot meet kettle.Eraser wrote:It is a miracle of divine proportions: Nightshade and GKY are posting in the same thread, not calling each other a moron and are actually agreeing on something. Hallelujah!
Eraser wrote:Dude, chill.
for a 'science guy', a complete untruth isn't the best place to start..."Denial of evolution is unique to the United States," Nye begins in a YouTube video posted on Thursday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CreationismWikipedia wrote:However, the percentage of people in the USA who accept the idea of evolution declined from 45% in 1985, to 40% in 2005.[92] A Gallup poll reported that percentage of people in the US who believe in a strict interpretation of creationism had fallen to 40% in 2010 after a high of 46% in 2006. The highest the percentage has risen between 1982 and 2010 was 47% in 1994 and 2000 according to the report.
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A 2007 study of religious patterns found that only 8% of Egyptians, 11% of Malaysians, 14% of Pakistanis, 16% of Indonesians, and 22% of Turks agree that Darwin's theory is probably or most certainly true, and a 2006 survey reported that about a quarter of Turkish adults agreed that human beings evolved from earlier animal species... Currently in Egypt, evolution is taught in schools but Saudi Arabia and Sudan have both banned the teaching of evolution in schools... In Lebanon, the government excised the teaching of evolution from the public school curriculum in the mid-1990s... Since the 1980s Creationism in Turkey has grown significantly and is now the government's official position on origins.
Got me thinking especially after viewing those recent videos hereGONNAFISTYA wrote:I wonder if the people in North Korea are taught evolution or if they're simply told that Fearless Leader © did it in an afternoon of Looking At Things?
See the others if you get the chancefeedback wrote:http://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-korean-labor-camps-part-1
Their documentaries are always so fucking good.
Oh I know why they do it, it just doesn't make any sense to me. It's a skull-cracking cognitive dissonance for me. Good point about the irrationality, I completely agree. I was not raised in a religious household so I can't understand the brainwashing. A good friend of mine was raised that way and he rebelled eventually and did a 180, hardest drinking fool I've ever met. Well, he used to be, anyways.Psyche911 wrote: Because Bible.
When you live your life completely and absolutely by a dogma, anything that contradicts it has the potential to invalidate your entire existence.
"Man was created in God's image." Impossible if we're the product of evolution. The only middle ground would be to say that these were revisions and he finally "got it right" when he made us. However, that would imply fallibility - he didn't get it right the first time.
These aren't rational people you're talking about. Even the smart ones. They are irrational, and in my opinion, not right in the head. If religion didn't have so much power, it would simply be classified as a psychological disorder. Belief you can communicate (prayer) to an invisible being? Belief that there is a plan in place for your life, which dictates your experiences? These are delusions. Sounds more like schizophrenia than anything.
Any religion that worships a being is a product of human psychology, and can't be countered with logic or rationality because it does not adhere to them.
The ones Semencan mentioned.losCHUNK wrote:Well he only mentioned Japan and USA ?, so, no
Good stuff. Thanks...GONNAFISTYA wrote:Just in case anyone hasn't seen the vid yet...
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