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Britons Unconvinced on Evolution
pryonic writes "The BBC is reporting that more than half of Britons do not believe in evolution, with a further 40% advocating that creationism or intelligent design should be taught in school science classes. I'm a Brit myself, and I thought most people over here thought these views were outdated and lacked substance. None of my close friends give any credit to creationism or ID, but we're all well educated athiests so I guess that's to be expected. Maybe I've been blind to the views of the majority in this proudly secular country?"
I think The Economist said it best:
"Intelligent Design is something Britons read about with a smirk before they turn to the Horoscope section"
(from memory, but very close)
Proof that Americans don't have a monopoly on ignorance!
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Wow. Fantastic deduction.
Nothing like denying education to the poor and middle to exacerbate the existing social divisions.
Heck, with all that money we save we could bring back debtor's prisons as well. Everybody wins!
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Lol, you're right their. I was a stupid typo. Thing is I get really annoyed when people make spelling mistake in stories. Talk about hypocracy!
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
You're right there. Same with Plate Tectonics. I mean, sure, we've found the mid-Atlantic ridge and measured how it's spreading a tiny amount each year, I don't disagree with Micro-Continental-Drift. It's only Macro-Continental-Drift I disagree with. Pangaea? Rubbish. And all the magnetic reversal patterns and matching rock formations on separate continents that the scientists come up with are IMO really weak.
And don't get me started on Macro-Addition. I mean, we know 1+1=2, we can test that by counting things, but AFAIK nobody in the world has ever seen more than a few million of anything at one time. And yet these scientists tell us about billions of this and trillions of that, and then they even make up a new way of writing numbers that doesn't even use names! Exponential notation is only a theory, and IMO, a weak one at that.
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There is no theory of evolution, just a list of animals Chuck Norris has allowed to live....
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I think you forgot the first adjective: "smug".
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Having seen the movie, "Underworld: Evolution", I'm starting to believe that the concept of evolution needs to be banished, if for no other reason than to prevent entertainment companies from coming up with these ideas.
Underworld: Evolution (movie)
Evolution (movie)
King of Fighters Evolution (video game)
Turok: Evolution (video game)
Gah!
OK, then; falsify it for us, so we can all forget about it and move on.
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Being brittish qualifies me to talk about this, I asked a few friends and some collegues at work and all of them believed in evolution ... even the christian who goes to church every weekend thinks that there was a form of evolution.
I'm not sure where/how they got a cross section of the population of this 'survey' but as far as I can see it's not very true.
I take offense at your slandering of His Noodleyness with your implied comparisons to ID.
Heathen.
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You would think that while posting about education I would find it wise to run a spell checker before hitting post. Please, excuse my typo's.
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Q. Do you feel that one-way systems often impede easy traffic flow?
Q. Do you think that the education of the designers is to blame?
Q. Should Inteligent Design be taught in schools?
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Actually, I think it is closer to 80%.
None of my close friends give any credit to creationism or ID, but we're all well educated athiests so I guess that's to be expected.
None of my close friends like eating pork, but we're all well educated jewish rabbis so I guess that's to be expected.
Dont you know ?! The Earth is a supercomputer built by a bunch of mice ? to know the ultimate question for the answer 42...
Could be a robotic SPAM duck decoy...
Oh Wait! You said it tastes good...
Never mind....
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We have evidence that we have evolved from "lesser" mammals, and they evolved from fish/reptiles, and they evolved from (initially) single celled lifeforms.
Ergo, god is an amoeba.
You're right, Karl _was_ the funniest Marx Brother ...
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Bull.
If you actually knew what you were talking about, you would know that Jesus wasn't "sharing" one peice of bread with many, nor was he demonstrating his power. The lesson has nothing to do with "good will towards your fellow man."
The people were all bitching and moaning that Jesus was a bit of a windbag and they were hungry, so Jesus grabs this kid who has a loaf of bread and (miraculously) gives everyone a peice. The people stick around to hear one more dissertation because there is now free food.
The lesson he was trying to teach was that if your going to demand everyone show up at your meeting, you sure as hell better bring donuts.
...and knowing the British, the phrase they missed out of the original article was "of the 3% who bothered to answer our questions ...."