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A recent Pew survey shows a wide gap between the views of scientists and the general public. Among the most depressing: “Almost a third of ordinary Americans say human beings have existed in their current form since the beginning of time, a view held by only 2 percent of the scientists.”
Isn’t “almost a third of ordinary Americans” a smaller fraction than that suggested in previous studies (some over 40%) and isn’t that progress of a sort?
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I was about to outrageously wonder how it could be that among scientists 2% failed to understand evolution, but then I read that the studies ‘scientists’ include science teachers and administrators.
posted on July 11, 2009You don't have permission to flag this entry.
Everon Weeks? Where have I heard that before?
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Everton Weekes, the greatest run maker Barbados ever produced. Now Sir Everton and well on his way to another century… 84 Not out!
How far off topic can you get?
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What was everyone expecting? How many people with hardly any understanding of biology are supposed to dump the superstition they have carried for thousands of years?
posted on July 18, 2009You don't have permission to flag this entry.
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This is depressing. I find it so incredibly difficult to take anyone seriously when they tell me that evolution is only a “theory” and science has no “proof”. There seems to be nothing that can be said or shown to many of these people to change their minds.
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