Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans

Stern Thinker writes "In a 2005 poll covering 33 countries, Americans are the least likely (except for Turkish respondents) to assert that 'humans developed ... from earlier species of animals.' Iceland, meanwhile, has an 85% acceptance rating for evolution." The blurb on the site for Science magazine is less circumspect about the findings: "The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States."

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Re:The Perceived Threat of Science

[pizzaman100]

What is a "science zealot?"

Richard Dawkins

Re:The Perceived Threat of Science

[aichpvee]

"That is not evolution in the sense of simple beings evolving into higher life forms but rather "devolution" or genetic loss of information and decay in the gene structure."

Are you a fucking moron? There is no such thing as "evolving into higher life forms" or "devolution." There is only adaptation to the selective pressures of an environment. This doesn't make anything "higher" or "lower" forms or make them "devolve", whatever that is supposed to mean. There is better adapted to an environment (more likely to survive), there is less adapted to an environment (less likely to survive), and there is dead (failed to survive, in case you're really that stupid).