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Darwin would be ashamed

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Poll: Just 39% believe in evolution - First Read - msnbc.com

From NBC's Mark Murray
Today it's not only Abraham Lincoln's birthday; it's also Charles Darwin's.

And a brand-new Gallup poll tied to Darwin's birthday finds that just 39% of Americans believe in evolution.

As expected, Gallup notes, education plays a big role here: 74% of those with post-graduate degrees believe in evolution. That's compared with only 21% of high school grads (or those with less education) who believe in the theory.

Ditto religion: 55% who don't attend church believe in evolution, versus 24% of weekly churchgoers who believe in it.

I don't believe in Gravity. Nor Germ Theory. Nor the Theory of the Atom.
 

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Scary... religions just shouldn't have such a power over education... We have religion education here too, but it isn't treated as an absolute truth that excludes all other explanations.
 

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I can drop a wrench on your foot and demonstrate gravity.

Does that prove that objects pull each other according to the mass? It just proves that the wrench goes down. There could be plenty of other explanations for that (if we forget everything we have learned).
 

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I, honestly, don't see why people don't believe in it- it's stunning, and I find it common and practical sense for evolution to have and be taking place! I wonder what people think if they don't believe in evolution? So much of science is based around the theory of evolution, and there are facts regarding the theory. Is it those believing in Adam and Eve as the first humans that don't believe in evolution?
 

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I can drop a wrench on your foot and demonstrate gravity. No comparable demonstration exists for evolution.

Eeek :strawman: ;) Unless you're messing, which I can't tell, so I'll link this anyways:

Evolution demonstrated with a computer program
[youtube=YZwUV-auY4w]Evolution[/youtube]
 

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Me either. Let us spread the propaganda to all.

Yes, what we perceive as "Gravity" isn't really Gravity, rather, it is the all-encompasing nature of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, his invisible noodley appendages are all around us and pull us together.
 

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Yes, what we perceive as "Gravity" isn't really Gravity, rather, it is the all-encompasing nature of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, his invisible noodley appendages are all around us and pull us together.

Wise anteater, you are. :vader1:
 

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Yes, what we perceive as "Gravity" isn't really Gravity, rather, it is the all-encompasing nature of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, his invisible noodley appendages are all around us and pull us together.

No no no... Objects that love each other are pulled to each other. Some objects hate each other. Like the similar poles of a magnet.
 

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Does that prove that objects pull each other according to the mass? It just proves that the wrench goes down. There could be plenty of other explanations for that (if we forget everything we have learned).

I didn't say anything about proof, I said demonstrate. I'm always as precise as possible in the words I choose. It's my contention (admittedly based on limited knowledge, since I haven't read the raw polling data) that it is likely a lot of the people polled do not "believe" in evolution because they haven't seen it demonstrated. Proof is largely irrelevant.

Oh, and I'd love to hear your other explanations for how the wrench goes down. It's been a long time since science class, so I'm a little rusty. :cheese:
 

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Dog breeds. Evolution before the eyes of our generations, under our control.
 

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I don't know what the heck you guys are on about but I have to go feed the dragon in my garage.
 
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