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Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?
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."
Whew.. I thought that question would be harder!
What is this "science" you speak of? Does it have something to do with making nucyalar bombs?
Four out of three ordinary Americans agree they don't know enough about math and science. :)
This is why science needs to make a supreme being, then it just becomes a practical question: which would you rather worship? A God that doesn't care or a God that ensures you have enough to eat and something interesting to watch on tv?
Hmm.. damned if you do and damned if you don't indeed.
How we know is more important than what we know.
An omnipotent being could very well make it so that all religions are correct at the same time, even the mutually exclusive ones.
Omnipotency is weird like that.
This is why I would much rather have a philosopher king than a democracy.
That is not omnipotency that is market segmantation. Like selling basically the same car as a chevy or an oldsmobile or a buick.
I will have a sig when the market demands it.
My Gods, Jimbo Wales, is that you?
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
Good call. I'll mod him up right after this post.
Evidence here: http://www.bythefault.com/2008/08/10/someone-missed-a-science-class/
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if god is omnipotent, can he make himself not exist?
This is what happens when you take the red pill and the blue pill at the same time.
Is that the fourth law of thermodynamics, where supreme energy can only be expended after his Noodliness has had a fresh smoothie?
I was taught to respect my elders. The trouble is, it's getting harder and harder to find some.
Don't be ridiculous; any cathedral-level building gives a 50% bonus to that city's cultural output. Even temples are a substantial boost - it's really hard to expand your borders in the early game without a religion.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Atheism is in itself a belief system. The belief that there is no God.
Like the way not collecting stamps is a hobby ?
Based on the available evidence, I'm going to have to say "No".
And guns don't kill people, it's those pesky bullets, right? And it's not so much the bullets, but the impact when they travel at high speed. And it's not so much the impact as the bleeding and loss of blood. And it's not so much the blood, as the loss of vital oxygen that the blood was carrying. So it's not that guns kill people, it's that people asphyxiate. Guns are just a scapegoat.
banning homosexual behavior could possibly be explained away as a desire to preserve evolutionary diversity
WRONG AGAIN POINDEXTER.
Homosexual behaviour is banned because, lets face it, it's pretty gay.