Posted on 08/15/2006 2:30:35 PM PDT by FewsOrange
In surveys conducted in 2005, people in the United States and 32 European countries were asked whether to respond “true,” “false” or “not sure” to this statement: “Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals.” The same question was posed to Japanese adults in 2001. The United States had the second-highest percentage of adults who said the statement was false and the second-lowest percentage who said the statement was true, researchers reported in the current issue of Science. Only adults in Turkey expressed more doubts on evolution. In Iceland, 85 percent agreed with the statement.
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"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1. He said it, and we believe it.
I see a correlation between people who believe in Socialism and people who believe in Evolution. Hmmmmmmmmmm........
Darwinism isn't science. It's a philosophy, which, as Richard Dawkins has admitted, gives atheists comfort in their atheism.
Bingo. The evos on FR will come on here and tell us we're all a bunch of slackjawed yokels for disbelieving their 19th Century mystery religion, but they should be forced to explain why it is that whenever they start losing the argument, they hire the ACLU to go out to sue someone to impose their views on the rest of us. They travel in suspicious circles.
Americans are the world's best consumers. They are much quicker than the people of other nations at weeding out inferior products, inferior theories, inferior ideological doctrines etc. etc. etc.
Exactly. There is really nothing more to say.
When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices. The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest ground. (Dean Koontz, FOREVER ODD)
In his book Darwinism Defended, Michael Ruse writes that "Many contemporary Darwinists show a strong liberal commitment in their politics and sexual morality, whereas advocates of creation want to go back to a strict biblical morality." And he concludes the chapter by saying, "Darwinism has a great past. Let us work to see that it has an even greater future." Isn't that something very inappropriate to say of a scientific theory? Does one ever hear anyone say "gravity has had a great past, let's work together to see that it has a great future." It’s pretty clear that Darwinism is more then simply a scientific “theory,” but is a worldview, and philosophy, which can be and has been applied to a variety of other theories, particularly social theories, and has influenced people’s morality and political ideology. It’s interesting that Darwinism applied to social behavior fuels a leftist viewpoint on all that it’s applied to.
It's interesting that this thread has been up for over an hour, and it hasn't yet attracted FR's roving pack of evos.
They travel in a pack? Well that 'splains a lot, Lucy! :-)
Mayhap they are evolving cogent responses … as we speak!
Believe what you want ~ but were you there to record every single step?
Give it time. They're busy on another one. There's a similar one that has attracted a lot of attention.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1682161/posts
Posted by DaveLoneRanger (courtesy ping)
There's a lot more evidence that Americans have devolved than evidence to the contrary.
So, if it said in the Bible that it was raining cats and dogs, would you believe that cats and dogs were falling from the sky, or that it was raining really hard?
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Tojo, Mengele, Saddam and Sons, Mao, etc.,...
At least a bit of devolution is going on...
Would you be kind enough to provide links to the data indicating such a correlation?
It's a philosophy, which, as Richard Dawkins has admitted, gives atheists comfort in their atheism.
What does that have to do with anything? Why are people's opinion of a scientific endeavor meaningful?
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