poll finds that 91% of the people polled are stupid

[TurdBerglar]

The latest NEWSWEEK poll shows that 91 percent of American adults surveyed believe in God—and nearly half reject the theory of evolution.

March 30, 2007 - A belief in God and an identification with an organized religion are widespread throughout the country, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. Nine in 10 (91 percent) of American adults say they believe in God and almost as many (87 percent) say they identify with a specific religion. Christians far outnumber members of any other faith in the country, with 82 percent of the poll’s respondents identifying themselves as such. Another 5 percent say they follow a non-Christian faith, such as Judaism or Islam. Nearly half (48 percent) of the public rejects the scientific theory of evolution; one-third (34 percent) of college graduates say they accept the Biblical account of creation as fact. Seventy-three percent of Evangelical Protestants say they believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years; 39 percent of non-Evangelical Protestants and 41 percent of Catholics agree with that view.

[QueenAdrock]

This chart shows just how retarded Americans really are. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/060810-evolution_big.jpg)

Blue = believes in evolution
Red = does not believe in evolution

What the FUCK is wrong with the US? Ugh.

[mikizee]

whats to believe, its fuckin FACT people.

[roosta]

i believe in God and im not stupid.

just really naive.

[ms.peachy]

I don't believe in polls.

[roosta]

i don't believe in g-mile

[paul jones]

I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky

[SobaViolence]

believing in something higher doesn't mean people are stupid.
now, the whole factuality to the creation story and rejection of evolution...that's another story.

[Bob]

i don't believe in g-mile

well that's just great, now he doesn't exist

[Nivvie]

I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky


I believe the children are our future.

[Bob]

i believe in life after love

[Nivvie]

It occurs to me that this thread is probably not the place to have an actual evolution/creationism discussion, but something's bugging me.

While evolution is the obvious choice to me, the fact it's yet to be re-named the law of evolution rather then theory must mean there are some holes, but why does that automatically translate to an awful lot of people that the bible is right?

I'm betting on what's in the mystery box.
It's probably a new caravan. Maybe kitchen appliances.

[roosta]

well that's just great, now he doesn't exist

im beginning to think he never did.

[Stupid]

:confused:

[TAL]

:confused:
Thank you :D

[TurdBerglar]

believing in something higher doesn't mean people are stupid.


well if it's an airliner or skyscraper than sure. but if you beleive that there's some sort of mystical being dictating everything that happens in the universe then you have been brainwashed. unless you believe that being is just some shmuck fucking around in his or hers equivalent of 7th grade science lab and the universe is nothing more than some mold on some bread.

[Teh]

You know, sometimes turd talks a ton of shite but he's got a certain knack for telling it like it is.


Either way, i don't see anything wrong with having a little faith and believing in god, it's when you take it to the extreme and would pick Intelligent Design over something with much more universial credibility such as the theory of evolution - which has some basis in reality.

Or if you're like that bunch of Americans i read about the other day that are such 'devout, good people and Christians' that they're spreading the word of god by brandishing 'GOD HATES FAGS' or 'THANK GOD FOR 9/11' banners and going to the funerals of soldiers who have died in Iraq and labelling them and their families alike eternal sinners and damning them to hell.

Big sentence, that one.

[TurdBerglar]

i take pride in telling it like it is

[synch]

Or if you're like that bunch of Americans i read about the other day that are such 'devout, good people and Christians' that they're spreading the word of god by brandishing 'GOD HATES FAGS' or 'THANK GOD FOR 9/11' banners and going to the funerals of soldiers who have died in Iraq and labelling them and their families alike eternal sinners and damning them to hell.

Big sentence, that one.The Phelps family. Theroux was on bbc2 at nine (your time) with a documentary about how he spent a few weeks with them.

Mindnumbingly moronic.

[roosta]

someone was watching Louis Theroux

[Teh]

Ironically i didn't watch it. I read about them. In a PAPER!!

I'm 0ld sk00l.

Anyways, i reckon we should all go to work on this. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design)

I love how it's so subtly sarcastic.

[QueenAdrock]

the fact it's yet to be re-named the law of evolution rather then theory must mean there are some holes

I personally think it would start a shit-storm to try to transform it from theory to law. So many people are unwilling to believe the evidence of evolution to begin with, to change it from a scientific theory to a scientific law would be a huge problem.

Scientific laws are readily demonstratable facts that cannot be disproven, whereas theories are tentative and can be subject to corrections, though they have enough proof that they can be readily accepted by the scientific community. We have a LOT of evidence for evolution, definitely enough for people to believe in it, but to say that it's a concrete law means that you'd have to show in mathematical terms how it is infallible. Though we can prove a lot, we can't prove everything in a precise process that occurs in an exact sequence each time and until we can do that, I don't see it becoming a law.

Though because evolution can't explain everything (how did the particles from the big bang get there, etc), some reject it outright and ignore all other evidence in favor for a book that was written by humans. How THAT is infallible, I don't know.

[TurdBerglar]

people just have a hard time fathoming that we're nothimg more than an extended chemical reaction. childbirth... chemical reaction. thoughts... chemical/electrical reactions. people want to be special and not just some goofy science experiment. it's pretty arrogant.

[roosta]

i don't 100% believe in Evolution

[Teh]

Kill the non-believer!

[Bob]

well if it's an airliner or skyscraper than sure. but if you beleive that there's some sort of mystical being dictating everything that happens in the universe then you have been brainwashed. unless you believe that being is just some shmuck fucking around in his or hers equivalent of 7th grade science lab and the universe is nothing more than some mold on some bread.

i bet it's something like that. all that stuff in the bible, where god's got an active role in the universe, with the plagues and the fireballs and the creation and all that, it was all for the science fair. then it ended, and he put the universe in the closet and walked away from it, but we've yet to catch on, we still think he's paying attention

realistically, he's probably in the divine equivalent of college now, at some frat party with zeus or something

[TurdBerglar]

bob's the new god

[Bob]

yeah i mean i'll give it a try, sure why not

[TurdBerglar]

yeah just continue to ignore us then all should be well. you know what? why not just give the box a little shake and see what gets stirred up.

[Bob]

i hope my mom doesn't throw it out when she's cleaning my room, that'd be lame

[TurdBerglar]

wait wait bob


are you saying black holes are nothing but garbage cans?

[Bob]

uhhhhh yes! yes, that is what i was saying, that was my idea, you heard me say it first

it shall be so

[TurdBerglar]

cool

so there's a doritos universe, a banana peel universe, and the mighty jizzy tissue universe in my blackhole next to my desk. the tissue universe is now turining yellow. i bet there's some kickass plagues and destruction going on in that one.

[fucktopgirl]

people just have a hard time fathoming that we're nothimg more than an extended chemical reaction. childbirth... chemical reaction. thoughts... chemical/electrical reactions. people want to be special and not just some goofy science experiment. it's pretty arrogant.

There is nothing arrogant to believe that there is more to perceive then the eyes can quantify and calculate and comprehend...we are far more then a chemical reaction! I mean , you can explain it like this but still,really a simplification... this chemical reaction = human with all his complex characteristics= our though and our moral ethics.

That the problem nowadays...everything is quantify and mathematic, cold and objective and neutral. All has to be view trough a microscope to make it tangible and real.

That is just bullshit!

The positivism current is strong and wipe every others avenues into the ditch.
The scientifics cannot know everything and what they know are always stripe from any human quality= surgical and emotionless.



I think people need to be more philosophic and less mathematic!


And i finish that with a Einstein quote that you tittle remind me of

''Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ''

[TurdBerglar]

everyone thought sickness and disease was caused by the wrath of good until someone discovered germs and the such with a microscope...

and they probably lynched him

[fucktopgirl]

I am not saying science is all shit...for sure there is good in it but it is not god.

In our days and era , the science is view like it has the supreme, the ultimate, TRUTH..fuck that!

That why we are all fucked...because we assume we can comprehend everything with our little narcissistic mind ! pffff

[Schmeltz]

Why evolution is called a theory, even though it is entirely true. (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html) You could compare this issue to Qdrop's misunderstanding of global warming: just as there is a scientific consensus as to the factuality of human agency in climate change, there is a scientific consensus as to the factuality of evolution. But there is still debate as to the specific mechanisms at work in each... which some wrongly use as the basis for claims to the effect that these theories hold no water.

[Jitters]

I pretty much believe in evolution as opposed to creationism.

It's easier to understand how it happened in a complex manner as opposed to, POOF!, and it was.

I've read parts of the Bible and think it's kind of silly, the way it explains things that are kind of obvious by todays standards. The Bible even explains the set-up of the solar system wrong so I'm not sure why people don't question its teachings and explanations more often.

I think people mainly believe in the Bible and religion because they think there has to be more to life and it has a greater meaning when we're just kind of...... here, and that's all there is.

Of course if I could see God or something I'd be more open to religion but it's just so hard for me to believe :(

[The Notorious LOL]

This chart shows just how retarded Americans really are. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/060810-evolution_big.jpg)

Blue = believes in evolution
Red = does not believe in evolution

What the FUCK is wrong with the US? Ugh.


looks to me like the US believes in it less than the majority of the free world.

[Nivvie]

Christianity has come a long way (for good or bad), and evolves itself, such as how it used to be believed that volcanoes were the fires of purgatory reaching up to warn the disbelievers, although I don't know if that's in the bible, it could just have been medieval folk trying to explain the world around them, but the pope at the time agreed, and he is god's rep on earth.

Maybe one day they'll accept evolution. I went to a full on catholic school, and was told that evolution could well be god controlled too, and it's the message that's important, not the mechanics. Which roughly translated to this biology teacher knows when he's licked.

What I really want is aliens to land. I would love to see how the church explained that one.
But not the church of scientology. They might see it as some kind of victory. Urgh.