1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says

NPR ^ | February 14, 2014 | Scott Neuman

[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.

[P.O.E.]

It’s pronounced “Erf”

[DoodleDawg]

The Bible says it does, so I would assume that figure would include all the young Earth Creationists.

[beethovenfan]

We are entering a new dark age.

[autumnraine]

I am on my phone. Please someone post a double face palm.

[Revolting cat!]

What’s wrong with the other three out of four?

[The Iceman Cometh]

Would be nice to know how many of the 26% had college degrees.

[central_va]

You would think evolution would be a smooth sinusoidal transition with no distinct changes generation to generation. Take the species homo sapiens - man if you will, you'd think there would be a slow changes as primates evolved over time. But it seems to be a step function with distinct sub species and accompanying characteristics "suddenly" appearing. What does that mean - "suddenly" appearing? How does that happen? How can group mutations happen? Let's say a baby is born to paleo human parents with smaller brow and the little baby girl some how more attractive. She would breed small browed offspring but the feature would be eventually washed out. The only way small browed to become dominant and permanently take hold would be a massive small browed mutation simultaneously happening to all tribes all at once. How can that happen?

But brows did get smaller and head shape changed but it "suddenly" appears, with no explanation from the evolutionary paleontologist.

[jwalsh07]

The NSF is geocentricphobic.

[Jimmy Valentine]

They have merely subscribed to Ptolemy’s theorem of Earths rotation

[Verginius Rufus]

Some people are just too busy to keep up with the latest scientific theories.

Besides, what difference does it make? It's not as if they were considering taking a trip to the sun.

[John W]

[tophat9000]

Look on evolution...here is the question. .we are coming in to time of genetic engineering. ..species will be created...so their will be intellectual design....so in ten thousand years..how will they know the evolved species from the designed ones?

[central_va]

Look on evolution...here is the question. .we are coming in to time of genetic engineering. ..species will be created...so their will be intellectual design....so in ten thousand years..how will they know the evolved species from the designed ones?

Great question.

[MeshugeMikey]

[Zathras]

Ding ding ding!
We have a winner.
I know lots of engineers who already think Conservatives are flat-earthers.

[Species8472]

Nearly everyone is wrong. The solar system moves through space at 70,000km/hr.

The solar system is a helix:

The Helical model of the Solar System

[Count of Monte Fisto]

Liberals control eduction.

I don't care who is in charge of the education system and how much money is spent on it you can't fix stupid.

The real problem is that these people can vote and sit on juries. I think everyone should have to take a citizenship test when they turn eighteen whether they were born here or not. The first question on the test should be: Does the Sun orbit the Earth.

[firebrand]

Did the survey ask how many were Democrats?

[dsc]

“And their votes count just as much as yours does.”

Every expansion of the franchise has hurt our republic.

[dsc]

“Part of the problem is that you have doctorate level socialists designing the curriculum.”

People who should never be in charge of anything are in charge of just about everything.

And not just in education.