Funny stuff. My kids went to a private Christian for years and never saw any of this, so I suppose it depends on where you live. This is an actual test, given to an actual student, graded by an actual teacher, in an actual private Christian school. Source
This is very sad. I still consider myself somewhat a ... well ... I better be quiet. But sad indeed. Science ... where art thou?
Holy cr*p, this is legit? Saw it floating around the web, but many stated that it was a fake, just to troll. I'm pretty shocked that this is real.
Well what can you say. Pastors in US are very sensitive about their revenue. Competition for tithes is fierce. Perhaps if we made a Germany-like tax, where everybody who claim to be a Christian pays 9-11% automatic tax, and if we distributed it fairly between tens of thousands of Christian sects present in US , there 'd be no need for science education like this.
Target people with punitive taxes and scrutiny for their beliefs? Clever idea! Too bad the Obama administration has already beat you to it.
Are you doubting that many of the so called non-profits are cons and cheats? If you have words " patriot" and " tea party" in your application does not mean that you are not a con or a cheat. I just gave you an example of how Catholics and other Christian cults are funding themselves in Germany, that's all. Personally I think every non-profit with $1 of paid wages or freebies to anybody should be taxed as any other for-profit organization
Interesting defense of the government. Personally, I think the next Republican president should seek out people posting on public forums expressing liberal views, and target them for audits. After all, there can be no question that many of them are tax cheats. Glad to see you support the idea.
Irrelevant? Not at all. If you are OK with the IRS auditing people based on their political views, why not sick them on your political opponents as they present their views in public. Don't be a hypocrite.
About HALF THE POPULATION believes in creation or disbelieves in evolution, as per poll results over several decades. Those same surveys indicate that only about 10% or less think evolution is the only possible reasonable view of origins, or the only one that should be taught in schools.
How strange. Its hard for me to fathom. http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx After looking at the origin of life by political affiliation, I realized I am in a 5% group of Republicans. Lets face it, Romney got 33% of the Gay vote last election. Far more gay's voted Republican than atheist/agnostic, though reading the statistics, there were other shocking numbers that explained why. 25% of people with post graduate education in the US believe in Creationism, and that the earth is less than 10,000 years old. One in four. Another 42% of post graduate students believe in a flavor of evolution that has god helping things along. I've long known there were as many Christian Democrats as there are Christian Republicans, and looking at the stats, the only difference in between the Democrats and Republicans on origin of man is that the Democrats and independents have 14% moved from Creationist to Evolution, but still only 19% of either group. What does it say about political parties? Americans on the whole? Post graduate education in the US? Its kind of hard to wrap the brain around.
The post-graduate caveat can be spun positively or negatively (the group represents either "the most intelligent/informed" or "the most secular conditioned/indoctrinated" depending on your bias).
America might be an industrial and powerful country but when it comes to education and belief of Americans as a whole, they are more of a third world country.
Without trying to feed the trollOlOl, I'm sure you realize that the US ranks near the top of first world nations when it comes to the educational attainment of it's citizens. In fact,our learning institutions are the first choice destinations for most of the third world, including Canada. The question of belief, on the other hand, is an interesting one. I suspect far fewer Europeans believe in creationism, simply because they got an earlier start on the oppression of the religious, and the killing of god. Perhaps what it says is that what is taught to you as a child with the aid of your parents sticks with you a lifetime.
More polling data on the question across 35 years, showing the consistency of 40-47% figure of support for creationism: http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publia.htm According to Gallop, young people are increasingly becoming young-earth creationists. This (more internet immersed) population shift may indicate that the more people are exposed to competing interpretations of the evidence, the more many young people are shifting to the creation side: http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/american-young-earth-creationism.html
So as of 2012 Creationists are 15% ("% God Created Humans in their present form"). 78% believe in evolution, and some believe a divine power over millions of years sort of guided evolution along to where we are today. In my experience with creationists, the reason people believe in creationism is the same reason people vote Democrat - conditioning due to lack of education. Um, hey, lookie here @melprise - don't cite me a strange website that incorrectly cites (I'm being polite here) a Gallop poll that you deliberately misinterpret to draw your bad conclusion. Especially when that strange website directly contradicts and most recent Gallop poll on the actual Gallop website that is linked to here. Show me the actual Gallop poll on the Gallop website, or you go sit in the corner. Understand? UPDATE: oh, duh, a two-year old gallop poll is referenced in that strange website: http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx If you bother to read it it says as of 2010 just 16% ("% God Created Humans in their present form") of Americans are Creationists. So, @melprise, show me, show me in the Gallop poll where your 40 to 47% Creationists figure comes from. Go ahead, show me.
Okay: In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/Darwin-Birthday-Believe-Evolution.aspx Those titles are the exact words the Gallop site uses to describe the results. The polls show it is the strictly defined evolution position (man evolved, God played no part) or view that garners no more than 9-16% support. To repeat, the two urls referenced in the other post (which you strangely uncomprehended) cited multiple polls (Gallop and non-Gallop) over several decades, and did not restrict their definition of the creation position as self-servingly as you have done. If a poll says x% strongly believe something, while y% somewhat believe something, it still means x+y groups believe it, not just the x group. It's not me who's ignoring the different population sectors identified in the polls, showing widespread non-belief in or skepticism about evolution.