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1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says
NPR ^ | February 14, 2014 | Scott Neuman

Posted on 02/15/2014 10:54:37 AM PST by kingattax

A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation.

The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.

To the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth," 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


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KEYWORDS: climatechangescare; liberalelites; science; waronsciencememe
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To: kingattax

They also invented parachutes for those crazy people that hike so when they fall off the edge of the earth they can save themselves.


101 posted on 02/15/2014 6:41:35 PM PST by dalereed
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To: central_va

The theory does not have holes. The fossil record is like one big hole with a few tiny objects in it.


102 posted on 02/15/2014 6:41:52 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

Here is where the BS comes in. Look at this graphic. The crossover from Homo Rhodesiensis to Homo Sapien, is it gradual? According to this graphical "gem" all of the Asian and European H. Rhodesiensis died leaving a small group in Africa which MAGICALLY morphed into Homo Sapiens. Do does this morphing happen so quick there is no cross over fossils, we just assume there is for the sake of the theory?

103 posted on 02/15/2014 6:50:16 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“But not nearly fearsome as power in the hands of a competent tyrant. American liberals are a bunch of bumbling idiots.”

That may be true, but during the course of my lifetime, they have succeeded in wreaking incalculable damage on the Greatest Country That Ever Existed.


104 posted on 02/15/2014 6:52:22 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
And we're still alive.

Look up.;-)

105 posted on 02/15/2014 7:00:50 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: central_va

That is a fascinating graph. Look what a small percentage of Rhodesiensis it took to evolve into Homo sapiens, which then took over with all the others slowly dying out. Whatever it was—massive radiation bombardment or more probably a change in conditions that favored intelligence of some kind, probably technical intelligence—it was dramatic.

These changes start to build on one another at a certain point too. Once smarts comes into it, Katy bar the door.


106 posted on 02/15/2014 7:01:08 PM PST by firebrand
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To: RoosterRedux

Optimism, they say, is true moral courage, so I guess I should cultivate it.


107 posted on 02/15/2014 7:03:52 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: kingattax

And to hear the media tell it, 100% of them are tea partiers....


108 posted on 02/15/2014 7:07:01 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: firebrand

Here’s a little secret, those little neck down areas don’t exist. Just get rid of them and then the graphic makes sense. One species is created and dies out then another is created and so on. There are no connections, no half breeds nor hybrids.


109 posted on 02/15/2014 7:07:15 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Why did you post it then? Where is it from?


110 posted on 02/15/2014 7:36:32 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

I posted from Wiki to illustrate the absurdity in the theory of Evolution. To think those “necked” down areas exist requires that evolutionary doctrine is a belief system or religion and not a scientific theory.


111 posted on 02/15/2014 7:40:03 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: darkwing104

I would like to know their politics...


112 posted on 02/15/2014 8:45:40 PM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
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To: SunkenCiv

“1, Sherlock Holmes books will be banned;”

Yeah, well they better just keep their paws off Mike Hammer, if they know what’s good for ‘em! ;)


113 posted on 02/15/2014 11:47:12 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: TXnMA
Do you have a Bible reference on that?

Joshua 10:12-13

On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon."

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.

114 posted on 02/16/2014 4:35:03 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: kingattax

Brought to you by your friendly neighborhood public school system.


115 posted on 02/16/2014 9:20:49 AM PST by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: DoodleDawg; Alamo-Girl; betty boop
"So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. "

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So -- what happened to all the other 100 billion stars in our galaxy (with proper motions independent of ours) -- not to mention all the other galaxies in His created universe?

It's God's universe. He -- and only He -- can change the "rules or laws" by which it operates. (When He does so, we call it a "miracle"...)

HE changed mankind's temporal reference frame for a day.

He once did the same for me for about a picosecond of His time. Seemed like hours for me and changed my entire life's direction. In fact, that is why I'm a physical chemist. (Long, true story...)

BTW, did Joshua and/or Jashar even know what a "galaxy" was? If so, how many could he/they see? Also -- did mankind's language even have a word for "galaxy"?

116 posted on 02/16/2014 9:57:23 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: TXnMA

All interesting but irrelevant to the fact that in Joshua the Bible says the Sun move around the Earth. If we are to accept the Bible as the literal truth, as young Earth creationists would have us do, then the literal fact is that astronomy is wrong and it is the Sun that is moving and not the Earth. So it’s not hard to believe that a good percentage of the people the story speaks of would be of the YEC variety.


117 posted on 02/16/2014 10:13:00 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg; betty boop; Alamo-Girl
"So it’s not hard to believe that a good percentage of the people the story speaks of would be of the YEC variety."

That is almost certainly the case. However, I believe Scripture is literally true when viewed from the reference frame of the folks who recorded it. (Hence the "galaxies" questions.)

Even if the universe were revealed to them as a vision, they had no way of comprehending or recording what they were shown.

We have no such excuse. View this little video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fBe3UoOt1g

Or for a more refined video of the same subject, see

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/important-image-captured-by-hubble#KH7HEvvxSk6kVwtV.01

118 posted on 02/16/2014 11:20:52 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: TXnMA
It's God's universe. He -- and only He -- can change the "rules or laws" by which it operates. (When He does so, we call it a "miracle"...)

Beautifully said, dear brother in Christ! Thank you for sharing your testimony, insights and those links!
119 posted on 02/16/2014 7:46:28 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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