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Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?

Posted by kdawson on from the stone-knives-and-bearskins dept.

Naturalist writes "For decades, educators and employers have worried that too few Americans are preparing for careers in science. But there's evidence to support a new, broader concern in this election year: Ordinary Americans may not know enough about science to make informed decisions on key questions."

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  1. Re:Obviously not by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Actually, science says that if you can get past the absolute terror field, you can kill angels. You must be able to kill God as well; he probably just has a thicker AT field.

    As for the topic: no, American voters are not as informed about science as they should be. They're not as well informed about anything as they should be. Ignorant people shouldn't be allowed to vote, or have any say in the lives of others -- especially if they're white protestant Christians.

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  2. Re:Just to play the devil's advocate... by meringuoid · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Such shenanigans would count as 'massive deception'. If God has been intervening in the Universe, he has been doing so in such a way as to conceal his own involvement. If, for instance, he created the world in seven days in 4004 BC, then he retconned in 13.7 billion years of entirely synthetic history. That kind of behaviour makes God a liar and a fraud, which is not the kind of thing most theists like to believe in.

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  3. Re:Feynman would turn over in his grave... by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > The existence of peer-reviewed articles hypothesize a Big Bang were also predicted by my hypothesis

    saying it doesn't make it true.

    you fail to understand the meaning of the word predict.

    show me your notes from last Monday that PREDICTED everything that was to come on Tuesday.

  4. Re:Religion vs. God by Grishnakh · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Doesn't matter what it says there. The fact that it condones it means that it's teaching that the Hebrew god screwed up, creating us with something that shouldn't be there. If we're not supposed to mess with our bodies by using birth control, according to the catholic church, then why are we supposed to mess with our bodies by cutting off skin in an especially sensitive place?

    This just shows that religions aren't even self-consistent.