Posted on 01/18/2007 7:40:08 PM PST by Tribune7
Twice the percentage of Europeans believe astrology is scientific (55%) as Americans (25%).
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America has the highest score in the world for science & technology leading indicators.
Since 1995 America has gone from 25% of global high tech GDP to 43% while Europe declined from 27% to 19%. Good golly Miss Molly, that’s the same time frame time ID has been blossoming in America too.
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Got it!
And the difference between astrology and ID is...?
I think on FR one is 'conservative' and the other isn't. I don't have my FR Decoder ring to figure out why one is conservative and one isn't, though.
Truth.
This is going to be a fun thread :-)
You could ask JR, but you'd likely get tossed off FR.
I thought ID was Internet Dependence.
I suppose you could call it that. I discovered though even of FR it is OK to offend Christians, but compare Obama to a terrorist and that will get you banned.
And those two facts would be related more than the recent New England Patriot Super Bowl appearances in what way?
Europeans are more likely to reject that life is designed but accept astrology.
ID is unfashionable among the cultural elites here but astrology is quite acceptible, yet Americans are more inclined to embrace the former but sneer at the latter.
This indicates that Americans are more inclined to think about matters than take the word of an establishment, and if they think about such things and come to conclusions those conclusions are more likely to be right than if someone accepts, sheep-like, a claim by a leftist academic.
I think the idea that elites find astrology to be scientific in dramatic numbers is an overstatement. I don't know anybody who takes astrology seriously - lib, conservative, moderate, apolitical.
Certain types claim ID hurts science here. This is a pretty good rebuttal.
And the relationship of ID to high tech is ... what?
Are IDers great scientists?
Are IDers leading the way in scientific journals?
Are IDers way out in front with patents? Patent applications?
Just what correlation between ID and high tech are you proposing? What is the cause and effect relationship you are espousing?
Based on many threads on this website, creationists and IDers are more anti-science than your average bear. What exactly are you claiming here?
But it is acceptable (thanks for fixing the typo). Katie Couric/Babara Walters/Oprah Winfrey/Al Franken/Michael Moore would treat an astrologer kindly. They would sneer at an IDer.
It's not very good rebuttal if the two concepts aren't related. It assumes ID has caught on, which it hasn't, and that it would affect the economy one way or the other, if it did.
So nobody can fairly draw a conclusion yet.
That's certainly true.
The difference is in who owns authority in science... Any text of any authority is invariably exploited by man's sinfulness to induce the student to think he has to listen to truth, when, incidentaly, he is told to worship whoever speaks and fear that person.
ID, though incoherent as it may be claimed to be, does symbolicaly expose the ruthlessness of the 'homosexualoid' agenda of those with tbe intent to find any reason whatsoever to cut the productions of free thinkers and any other types under the hypocritical banner of it 'being a way to bring back to power the alleged oppressors of Gallileo' - God, that is.
Okay, Americans, we're doing alright in the ID department, but we need to work on our acceptance of Astrology: being less than #1 in anything at all simply won't do! Let's breathe deeply and get our gullibility motors running at maximum RPMs! Believe, damn it! Believe!
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