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[novapsyche]

Widespread Ignorance

Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. And since Bush's endorsement of 'intelligent design,' the battle between faith and reason is growing stronger.

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[xterminal.livejournal.com]

I believe in Satan, and I believe he recently came out in favor of teaching unintelligent design in schools.

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

(side note: I would very, very much like to see where that 28% figure came from; I'd like to know, at the same time I dread, that it's not some sort of overly skewed figure. That can't be right. It just can't.)

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's my reaction, too...where ARE these people. Kinda like finding the 51% that voted for Bush. Almost like they only live inside a little black box...

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. The 51% are well in evidence all around me... I live in Ohio. We had quite a few Kerry bumper stickers, but there are a whole lot of W'04s as well. (Amusingly, most of them seem to have sprung up after the election, because they were quite scarce before it...)

[simianpower.livejournal.com]

I really like that last sentence, which implies that faith and reason are mutually incompatible.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

If you like that, you should read Kierkegaard.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

We're really sunk when the faithful can't be reasonable.

[shaelbopp.livejournal.com]

I have got to get out of this quite litterally stupid country.

[entheo.livejournal.com]

Its quite interesting to see the gradual decline and fall of the US Empire, and soon economic collapse that is likely to occur.
And yes I dont live there so its an academic interest to see how bad it will get.

[mr-quackenbush.livejournal.com]

i want to know who are the 4% who believe in neither? they must be interesting people.

[stampytherhino.livejournal.com]

They believe that both Satan and evolution led to the current ecology. Sounds about right, innit?

I'm dying to know whence cometh that 28% stat, too. I mean, believe in Satan all you want, but if only a generous quarter of we USians believe in evolution, then...well, fuck a duck. That's terrifying.

Maybe another 60% think believing in evolution is as dumb as believing in trees--or maybe the Scientologists (http://www.xenu.net) muddled with the results.