Google Search Trends Show Danes, Australians, Canada Interested in Intelligent Design

Google Search ID Trend History ^ | 06/16/2006

[SirLinksalot]

Just out of curiosity, I did a little research about Google trends to see which countries other than the USA are interested in the issue of Intelligent Design vs. Evolution.

SEE THE RESULT HERE :

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Intelligent+Design&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Now, Click on the “regions” tab.

What is interesting is... it shows that our good ally in the War on Terror, Australia has about half the searches for Intelligent Design that we do.

But please note that Australia’s population is about 20 million. The USA on the other hand has about 280 million people.

This shows that Australia's INTEREST for ID is about 6 times more per person than the USA.

And note Denmark has only 5 million people. This means that the Danes are 20 times more interested in ID than Americans.

Interest on ID is more and more growing in Europe even in presence of a growing secularist tide.

The top 10 countries where ID is being searched for are :

USA AUSTRALIA DENMARK CANADA NETHERLANDS SWEDEN UK INDIA BELGIUM GERMANY

In the USA, the top 10 cities that are interested in ID are :

1. PHILADELPHIA

2. Washington, DC USA

3. St Louis, MO USA

4. Seattle, WA USA

5. Portland, OR USA

6. Denver, CO USA

7. Austin, TX USA

8. Minneapolis, MN USA

9. San Francisco, CA USA

10. Chicago, IL USA

[HayekRocks]

Doctor William Dembski is not a Creationist. He is an Intelligent Design Theorist. He is probably a very busy man and does not have time to check all of his mathmatics.

Do you think he is FReeper Sir Linksalot? That would be awesum.

[ahayes]

He is probably a very busy man and does not have time to check all of his mathmatics.

Then he should hire some college kid to do it for him!

What Hayek, btw? Selma Hayek?

[PatrickHenry]

Inspired by this thread, "Just out of curiosity, I did a little" poetry writing to see what I could come up with -- entirely on my own, you understand. What do you think?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

[ahayes]

Throw in something about a bird and Greek mythology and I think it could really work.

[VadeRetro]

That's gonna leave a mark.

It's a good identification that insults both parties identified as each other!

[VadeRetro]

You STOLE that! Along with my luggage!

[js1138]

If Dembski abandons his site to post as an ID advocate on FR, it will raise the average IQ of both undertakings.

After normalization.

[HayekRocks]

What Hayek, btw? Selma Hayek?

Selma is very beautiful and just as talented as former Latin American actress Carmen Miranda. Did you know she speaks four languages and is Cathlic. I would like to post a sexy picture like a lot of FReepers do but I havent figured out how to do that yet.

[shuckmaster]

Wow! It's really encouraging to know that there are people in other countries who are as willfully ignorant as some folks in Philly, DC, and San Fran... I just hope those people across the pond aren't as faulty in their math as you are!

[Virginia-American]

I wonder how the Islamic countries stack up.

[VadeRetro]

I have the famous picture of Carmen Miranda and Cesar Romero dancing. If you know how to use Google, you can have it too.

But there's no way I'm posting THAT one here.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Amusingly enough. Dembski could have absolutely quelled all problems and commentary by just noting that his first posting was in error, relatively speaking; made the correction, and continued. Of course, like all creationists, he is unable to ever admit to a mistake (even in arithmetic) and thus continues to burrow into mathematical inanity.

[balrog666]

Amusingly enough. Dembski could have absolutely quelled all problems and commentary by just noting that his first posting was in error, relatively speaking; made the correction, and continued. Of course, like all creationists, he is unable to ever admit to a mistake (even in arithmetic) and thus continues to burrow into mathematical inanity.

Make that complete inanity - he's a parody of himself.

[VadeRetro]

Why do they always do that even when it's OBVIOUS they screwed up?

[ahayes]

Especially when it's not that massive a mistake, just carelessness (or at least could be passed off as carelessness).

[VadeRetro]

From his blog, all I can see so far is that at least two replies have pointed out the problem and Dembski has not responded. Is there more somewhere?

[PatrickHenry]

From his blog, all I can see so far is that at least two replies have pointed out the problem and Dembski has not responded. Is there more somewhere?

I recall hearing about a similar episode. In that case, the embarrassing material just vanished, and was never mentioned again. It never happened. Save this one if it matters to you, because if things run true to course, this too will cease to exist.

[Doctor Stochastic]

If I've seen this behavior once, I've seen it 1⁷²⁰ times.

[PatrickHenry]

... this too will cease to exist.

Of course, this thread will exist. But in the case of the lead article, it was ... well [cough, cough] an independent discovery.

[VadeRetro]

Note that I said "at least two replies" when the number is three. That's because some of us have the secret understanding that the number after two is two.