God Damn It People
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God damn it. American’s are so freaking stupid.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/Darwin-Birthday-Believe-Evolution.aspx
Short version? On today, the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin (hurray Charles Darwin! You glorious dead bastard!)(Shout out to Abe Lincoln too. Slavery is bad.), Gallup has released their sort-of-annual evolution poll. And the amount of Americans who believe in evolution is… (drum roll please)…
…. 39 percent.
…
Wow.
People are really, really stupid, you know? Just… wow. I’m not even sure how to react to the level of ignorance in this country.
So, I guess if you believe in a literal interpretation of the first two chapters of Genesis- despite the fact that the whole fall from Eden is mostly a metaphor, and oh yeah, by its own admission no one was actually present to witness days one thru five so how the hell they know what happened then, I’ll never understand- I suppose that’s your prerogative.
Personally, I have nipples.
And a tailbone. An appendix. Not to mention an R-complex, junk DNA, genetic memories, mitochondria, blue eyes, and back in the womb I grew gills before I grew lungs- among other things. This is all because I have ancestors that can be traced back over 350 million years, and my single-celled ancestors have left huge impacts on my genetic structure.
Even fans of the non-science Intelligent Design club admit that the Earth is more than 4 billion years old, not 6,000. Dinosaur bones were not put here by the devil, they’re the fossilized remains of an extinct superorder of diapsids. Also, they’re where birds came from. You are a monkey, and you always have been a monkey, and you really ought to just accept that you’re a monkey because it’s not going to change.
Evolution is still a relatively new science, and there are still a whole lot of questions about it. But science is all about having a question, finding the answer, and then discovering all kinds of new questions from that answer. That’s how we get smarter, it’s how we better ourselves. And I really wish we, as a country, would tackle this scientific illiteracy head on and help make us, as a country, smarter.
So, screw the political correctness on this. Creationism is just plain… wrong. The Earth did not magically appear here one sunny afternoon. God may very well have been in charge of the whole thing (jury’s still out on that one), but if he was, evolution was the machine he used to engineer us. (Seriously. Gills. Look it up.) Evolution happens every day through genetic mutation, population drift, environmental changes, and good old fashion luck. And that’s, well, just the plain science behind it all.
So, happy birthday Charles Darwin. Maybe in another 200 years American’s will get smarter. We’ll see.
God damn it. American’s are so freaking stupid.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/Darwin-Birthday-Believe-Evolution.aspx
Short version? On today, the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin (hurray Charles Darwin! You glorious dead bastard!)(Shout out to Abe Lincoln too. Slavery is bad.), Gallup has released their sort-of-annual evolution poll. And the amount of Americans who believe in evolution is… (drum roll please)…
…. 39 percent.
…
Wow.
People are really, really stupid, you know? Just… wow. I’m not even sure how to react to the level of ignorance in this country.
So, I guess if you believe in a literal interpretation of the first two chapters of Genesis- despite the fact that the whole fall from Eden is mostly a metaphor, and oh yeah, by its own admission no one was actually present to witness days one thru five so how the hell they know what happened then, I’ll never understand- I suppose that’s your prerogative.
Personally, I have nipples.
And a tailbone. An appendix. Not to mention an R-complex, junk DNA, genetic memories, mitochondria, blue eyes, and back in the womb I grew gills before I grew lungs- among other things. This is all because I have ancestors that can be traced back over 350 million years, and my single-celled ancestors have left huge impacts on my genetic structure.
Even fans of the non-science Intelligent Design club admit that the Earth is more than 4 billion years old, not 6,000. Dinosaur bones were not put here by the devil, they’re the fossilized remains of an extinct superorder of diapsids. Also, they’re where birds came from. You are a monkey, and you always have been a monkey, and you really ought to just accept that you’re a monkey because it’s not going to change.
Evolution is still a relatively new science, and there are still a whole lot of questions about it. But science is all about having a question, finding the answer, and then discovering all kinds of new questions from that answer. That’s how we get smarter, it’s how we better ourselves. And I really wish we, as a country, would tackle this scientific illiteracy head on and help make us, as a country, smarter.
So, screw the political correctness on this. Creationism is just plain… wrong. The Earth did not magically appear here one sunny afternoon. God may very well have been in charge of the whole thing (jury’s still out on that one), but if he was, evolution was the machine he used to engineer us. (Seriously. Gills. Look it up.) Evolution happens every day through genetic mutation, population drift, environmental changes, and good old fashion luck. And that’s, well, just the plain science behind it all.
So, happy birthday Charles Darwin. Maybe in another 200 years American’s will get smarter. We’ll see.
Your logic is flawed. Dinosaur bones weren't put into the 6000 year old Earth by the devil. That's utterly preposterous! They were put there by God Almighty to test the resolve of the faithful. Do some fact-checking for goodness sake! This is Dan Horn. Your comment checker wont let me enter my Windows IM info. Dammit
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