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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: Sheapdog

That’s an astounding stat, and of course the number of new Democrat voters = (x-3) where x is the number of students.


81 posted on 02/15/2014 2:11:50 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Sheapdog

Seems to be a disease that is catching across America! Maybe it has to do with something other than the students?

Me, I’d think that the school supervisors are just as stupid as the teachers and probably the students (not altogether the students fault though)... They are trained well, just not in usable knowledge.


82 posted on 02/15/2014 2:17:27 PM PST by Deagle (ues)
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To: Deagle

When idiots are doing the teaching, the students are learning idiocy.


83 posted on 02/15/2014 2:22:57 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: kingattax
It seems to me that about 25% of our folks are the products of the inner city schools which are taught and controlled by liberals. These people refuse to learn or be responsible for themselves.

I don't know how to put this tactfully.

The gene pool is usually and naturally self cleaning. Welfare has interrupted this biological mechanism in our nation. Those who are the least productive and intelligent have been encouraged to reproduce in large numbers. Generationally they have become less intelligent and productive. Tests given over the last several decades have clearly demonstrated this fact.

The population as a whole will readjust and the process of dynamic equilibrium will occur. The bottom end of the gene pool will be flushed out and the more productive, adaptable, and intelligent humans will survive and flourish. This is not a matter of if, but when.

In the end the truth will be known. It is never smart to fool with mother nature.

84 posted on 02/15/2014 2:26:23 PM PST by oldenuff2no
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To: kingattax
That's a bogus "NPR", aka "National Public Radio" site......And if you waste your time in visiting it, it will lead you to another site mentioning the study and when you click on that, there is no such study mentioned........

Sheesh!

85 posted on 02/15/2014 2:27:49 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: kingattax

Where I live the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. People around me tend to be comfortable with the same point of view, but there are certain snobs who think all of life must be explained, if not experienced, in solely scientific terms. Perhaps they need to get a life.


86 posted on 02/15/2014 2:48:58 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Species8472
Nearly everyone is wrong. The solar system moves through space at 70,000km/hr.

7,000 km/hr based on what stationary object?.....I maintain that it isn't moving at all......ther things may or may not be moving....but we aren't

87 posted on 02/15/2014 3:06:00 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: firebrand
It suddenly appears because (1) there is a mutation and (2) the mutation has a function or has no opposing function.

This is not possible because mutant number one would be alone in the world. Let say the first paleo human mutant(the missing link as it were) had a skull, nose and brow like a modern human. Well to ALL the others big browed, nosed, and low skulled humans, that would be a very undesirable mate, looking different. The suddenly appears thing does not work

88 posted on 02/15/2014 4:02:34 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: kingattax

The Obama electorate.


89 posted on 02/15/2014 4:49:00 PM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: kingattax
They suck in air.

They take down nourishment.

They breed....

...and worst of all....

they VOTE!

90 posted on 02/15/2014 5:15:01 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: central_va

It happens by degrees, but the advantage can be hidden, or cumulative. Also could coincidentally make one more attractive, but that’s not really that relevant. The gene would be carried into the next generations, where other factors would predominate and favor or not favor the gene.


91 posted on 02/15/2014 6:09:31 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Vinylly
"How can the sun go around the earth when earth is flat? Seems the sun would hit the earth if it tries to go around it."

There's no problem -- as long as it misses the four corners...

92 posted on 02/15/2014 6:17:49 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: firebrand

Doesn’t the fact that “experts” say there are distinct species and seemingly no cross over fossils so that the theory of evolution is self defeating and counter intuitive? For example there are no Homo Erectus / Neanderthal hybrids at all. Neanderthals “suddenly appear”. Well that is not good enough explaination unless you believe in creation.


93 posted on 02/15/2014 6:21:19 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DoodleDawg
"The Bible says it does, so I would assume that figure would include all the young Earth Creationists."

Do you have a Bible reference on that?

94 posted on 02/15/2014 6:22:50 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: firebrand
It happens by degrees

But it doesn't happen by degree it is not gradual. No fossil evidence of that at all. There is a distinct beginning to modern humans- cro magnon man. IMO creation seems more likely than "suddenly appearing" as a new species. There is not gradual development they are classified as a distinct species, by the evolutionists own theory. I used to be a believe in evolution until I studied math and statistics. Evolution makes no sense from a mathematical probability point of view.

95 posted on 02/15/2014 6:27:08 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Zathras

Why do they think that?

Yale prof: Tea Partiers know more science than you think

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57608068-71/yale-prof-tea-partiers-know-more-science-than-you-think/


96 posted on 02/15/2014 6:27:21 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: firebrand

Can you give an example?


97 posted on 02/15/2014 6:29:01 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: central_va

There are plateaus of development, which have been explored extensively.By Niles Eldredge, for one.

Basically, it is very difficult for us, as presumably (if you accept evolution theory) living at the latest microsecond of evolution, to conceive of the vast time spans involved, and on the other hand the minute changes that appeared and were transmitted or disappeared.

I’ve always seen that as the fundamental problem in understanding evolution.

We have such a short life span and tend to see things in much briefer spurts of time.

If you can imagine a tiny dot, which is a permanent change in a species, among the sands of the sea or the stars in the sky, you can see how it is possible and likely that competitors that were infinitesimally different vanished completely, leaving no fossil record at all for us to see. The fossil records that we have is another tiny dot, in the enormous galaxy of organisms that did or could have produced fossils that we have not found.

The whole thing is a matter of dimensions. Yes, if a man develops a trait that is considered ugly, women are not goin to like him, but that is anthropomophizing man, for lack of a better phrase. It’s viewing evolution through the lens of our own experience and the paltriness of the physical evidence of any particular change.

You can’t pick one trait and say we have no evidence of how it changed. Even Darwin was stumped by the eye.


98 posted on 02/15/2014 6:38:01 PM PST by firebrand
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To: kingattax
It just turns on during the day and turns off at night, just like a light bulb!
99 posted on 02/15/2014 6:39:32 PM PST by dalereed
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To: firebrand

The only theory with more holes in it than evolution is the gloBULLwarming BS.


100 posted on 02/15/2014 6:39:58 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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