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SciFiBoy on 11 July 2009
pastro243 said:
SciFiBoy said:
alekth said:

fewer than half — 46 percent — knew that electrons are smaller than atoms

This is really disturbing, that was before high school for me, and it kept emerging over and over again in chemistry and physics classes. Are people getting that much dumber?

tbh, much of that report is disturbing, such as this

"87 percent of scientists believed that humans and other living things evolved naturally, compared with 32 percent of the general public"

sounds to me like your nation needs to improve science lessons significantly.


I think religion has to do with it, the bible is more important than any scientific studies to them. I know this because some guy at a FB forum called me idiot because I thought that adam and eve wasnt more than a story(which is) and he started saying that we coming from monkeys was very stupid and laughed like an idiot, another girl said there where the ones who are sons of god and the others are inferior and come from the monkeys, also, they said the big bang was so stupid because only god can organize something as perfect as the universe, many other things they said.

I think someone needs to do something.


put more emphasis on science lessons at the very least, that should help, i dont really know enough about the US education system to suggest more than that, but clearly something went wrong if that article is true.



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alekth on 11 July 2009

Well, I was already aware on the split opinions on evolution and global warming, so it doesn't surprise me. And some of the other stuff is still not that severe.

But I'm trying to imagine going through any chemistry class, or electricity-related physics class without knowing what atoms and electrons are, and it's a hard thing to imagine, for any educational system.



akuma587 on 11 July 2009
pastro243 said:
Slimebeast said:
highwaystar101 said:

Source

_ The public and scientists did not always see eye-to-eye. For example 87 percent of scientists believed that humans and other living things evolved naturally, compared with 32 percent of the general public (WTF at the disparity on that one!). And while 84 percent of scientists say the Earth is getting warmer because of human activities, just 49 percent of the public agreed.

 

 

Shows that sometimes scientists are actually less knowledgable about the reality than the public is.


So now a random guy in a videogame forum and 49% of general public, which could easily be stupid people, know more than 84% of the scientific comunity. It could be possible but it isnt likely.

QFT.  Americans aren't exactly credible on scientific issues.  And I say that as an American.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml

(CBS) 

Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.

These views are similar to what they were in November 2004 shortly after the presidential election.

VIEWS ON EVOLUTION/CREATIONISM

Now
God created humans in present form
51%
Humans evolved, God guided the process
30%
Humans evolved, God did not guide process
15%

Nov. 2004
God created humans in present form
55%
Humans evolved, God guided the process
27%
Humans evolved, God did not guide process
13%

This question on the origin of human beings, asked both this month and in November 2004, offered the public three alternatives: 1. Human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, and God did not directly guide this process; 2. Human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, but God guided this process; or 3. God created human beings in their present form.

The results were not much different between the answers to that question and those given when a specific timeline was included in the final alternative: God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years.

Americans most likely to believe in only evolution are liberals (36 percent), those who rarely or never attend religious services (25 percent), and those with a college degree or higher (24 percent).

White evangelicals (77 percent), weekly churchgoers (74 percent) and conservatives (64 percent), are mostly likely to say God created humans in their present form.

 



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pastro243 on 11 July 2009

Thats interesting



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