Some polls from the latest issue of Newsweek
Oops, I accidentally hit submit instead of preview, Anyway, rant, rant rant…fucking stupid Americans…blah blah blah…this is why we have a chimp running the country…etc. etc,
There are some more polls in the same issue and after reading them all, i have to say it’s truly fucking scary how monumentally backwards we are as a people.
Thank god for liberal educators, by the way. They’re the only thing stopping us from becoming Saudi Arabia.
Hmmm…
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Clearly, 3% of the population believes that it’s possible to create facts by inventing a story. 
That’s scary, and rather suprising. I knew that religion had a firm grip on US society, but to this extent!?
The scariest part is the “creation vs evolution” science in schools. To someone who has a hard time even putting “creation” and “science” together as one word without laughing, I find it beyond words that people would favor the teaching of it in schools to evolution theory.
Holy bejeepus. I hope the question was so poorly phrased that it was way more likely to lead to people saying creationism should be taught instead. Forty-three percent?
Isn’t one problem that ‘creationism’, and ‘evolution’ to some extent, allow of different interpretations? The results of such a survey are interesting in a general way but not very informative.
I’m not even a little surprised…
I’d be worried if I believed polls. They interviewed 1009 people by phone. I’ve taken part in polls like that, and I spend most of the poll yanking the pollsters chain just as hard as I can. That’s why the figures are so skewed.
Like I said in the other thread: Tell kids that evolution is a dirty subject, with too much sex in it to be taught in schools. Then maybe they’ll sneak into libraries to read about it and will actually learn something about the subject.
I’m suspicious of that poll, too. 43% want “creation science” taught instead of evolution? I bet 80% of the people in the US couldn’t tell you what “creation science” is if you asked them to describe it.
I can’t trust any poll that doesn’t mention its confidence interval; besides, 79% of all statistics are made up. I’d like to know how the questions were phrased to see if any bias was introdiced in the polling. That said, Americans these days seem to be incrasingly ignorant of the world, science in general, and anything that doesn’t have to do with Paris Hilton or The Apprentice. My only surprise would be that only 43 percent believe that Mesoptamian creation myths should be taught in schools.
It wasn’t in the OP, but that actually scored 62%. Positive respondents often elaborated that Mesoptamia is just as important as any other book in the Bible.
And I wouldn’t be surprised to find that many Americans have no clue that the myths they are taught from the Bible originated in Mesopotamia or that the region figures heavily in today’s news. Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood, and so forth were transmitted to the Jews during the Babylonian Captivity.
I wonder how many of them know that Babylon was in present day Iraq or what they would make of that symbolically if they knew.
“Lawdy Lawd, Jenkins and LaHaye wuz right, the End Times done come! Oh, save me from Nicolae Carpathia!”
Of course it’s winnable, we just have to tie it into the War On Terror, because that’s going so well, as we all know 
Now, how to do that…
Ah, well, then it’s easy. Bomb Babylon. War on ingorance is won. Mission accomplished.
I smell red states…
You betcha. I think they’re leaning more towards North Korea.
Oh well we had a decent run. Time to look up a country where I can raise my nonexistant kids.
Not to intentionally paraphrase Yoda or anything, but religion is not stronger than truth - it’s easier, quicker, and more seductive.