[Closed] In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins

I don't think you need to go to all the trouble of crossing the Atlantic Ocean to find a bunch of judgmental ill-informed bigoted halfwits.

Its not an accurate reflection of this thread though 😕

Junky,

I'll take my chances.

I think this exactly the sort of thread that gives many people a chance to show how very clever they are.
Go for it. Impress us with your cleverness.

Well, actually I mean impress [i]them[/i] cos I won't be reading.

too many big words 😉

pretty ironic that you are accusing others of.....

I asked a question - the clue was in the question mark.

All I can see is a bunch of smug judgmental bigots queuing up to ridicule yanks. As I said early, I don't see the point of this thread other than a tedious attempt to bash the Yanks. By all means criticise their governments, and their government's policies, but smugly ridiculing its people is nasty and uncalled for imo.

And it's also deeply impolite, a few forum users are actually American.

Theres some wierd comments on here. No-ones bashing america or arguing about whether god exists at all or trying to be clever.

All I can see is a bunch of smug judgmental bigots queuing up to ridicule yanks.

eh? where? all i see is you complaining about it a lot.

All I can see is a bunch of smug judgmental bigots queuing up to ridicule ([b]insert any one of a number of social/cultural/behavioural groups it "OK to hate on stw" here[/b]). As I said early, I don't see the point of this thread other than a tedious attempt to bash ([b]and here[/b])

Just about sums up the way nearly all the chat threads and ever more of the bike threads end up these days.
I can remember when all this round here was green fields and orchards......

No-ones bashing america .....

Don't give me that load of old bollox. The purpose of this thread was to ridicule the yanks with, "haha, look how stupid they are, half of them believe in creation".

Did you actually read the OP ? You obviously didn't, so I'll copy and paste it for you :

TuckerUK - Member

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx

And they are our Special Friends? Is that 'Special' as in 'Special Needs'?

"They" refers to Americans, in case you can't figure that out. It's suggesting that they have "special needs".

as is you right but their beliefs are affecting our lifes

That's also what Christians might say about Atheists/Agnostics affecting [i]their[/i] lives.

Not agreeing with/about something doesn't mean it's not valid.

All I can see is a bunch of smug judgmental bigots queuing up to ridicule yanks..

Thanks god you kept your head high ernie and did not fall into the trap of being smug or judgemental on people and thannkfuly you never stoop to ridicule.

Yes they may say that ..shall I add it to the big list of things they believe that are wrong 😉

"They" refers to Americans, in case you can't figure that out. It's suggesting that they have "special needs".

Indeed. I'm frankly alarmed that a country that regrettably intrudes into our daily life so much has such a large percentage of voters who believe in make-believe.

And to misquote 'The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The bigot adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the bigot.'

So predictable Junkyard, so so predictable.

"They don't like it up'em Captain Mainwaring"

But they don't mind dishing it out.

[i]A 2007 study of religious patterns found that only 8% of Egyptians, 11% of Malaysians, 14% of ****stanis, 16% of Indonesians, and 22% of Turks agree that Darwin's theory is probably or most certainly true.[/i]

Makes America look positivley enlightened -

I think I'll sit back and wait for people to start telling us how stupid moslems must be 😉

Ermmmmm.... nah. 🙂

How many people on here give sensible answers to cold callers or opinion polls? I either put the phone down or wind them up but never give any accurate or honest information.

"They don't like it up'em Captain Mainwaring"

But they don't mind dishing it out.

A 2007 study of religious patterns found that only 8% of Egyptians, 11% of Malaysians, 14% of ****stanis, 16% of Indonesians, and 22% of Turks agree that Darwin's theory is probably or most certainly true

Got any comparative results for Western Europe, say France (secular contstitution) and Spain (quite a religous country)

im gutted, i cant find the link to it now, but i once read a poll by time magazine where they asked people to name the most influential american of all time and the winner was .....jesus! hahahahahaha

It would be interesting to see if anyone's done a similar poll in the States, but split the respondents between those who live with a 100 miles of the coast and those who don't.

It would be interesting to see if anyone's done a similar poll in the States, but split the respondents between those who live with a 100 miles of the coast and those who don't.

Republicans vs Democrats would get you pretty close!

im gutted, i cant find the link to it now, but i once read a poll by time magazine where they asked people to name the most influential american of all time and the winner was .....jesus! hahahahahaha

No,Time hasn't commissioned a poll with this result. Or, I would guess, anywhere reputable. 🙂

It would be interesting to see if anyone's done a similar poll in the States, but split the respondents between those who live with a 100 miles of the coast and those who don't.

This was my first thought- how was the sample spread among the population- were state's weighted equally, regardless of the population, or was there a bias towards the (largely coastal) major, and, to my mind largely secular, population centres?

6 out of 7 Dwarfs aren't happy

Ahem.

One at least is occasionally muddy though.. 😛

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_UK

Not that much difference in the number with religious beliefs or otherwise either side of the pond as far as I can see,so let's not write off all the Yanks just yet.
Even St Augustine writing in the 4th Century AD did't take the creation story and many of the Biblical stories literally

well we have never has a trial for teaching evolution in the uk nor any widespread attempts to have creationism taught in schools.

The numbers may be similar but the "fundamentalism" is different
Why did the Pilgrim fathers leave again?

I dont think anyone is actually knocking all yanks despite the repeated claims.

There are enough 'yanks' slagging off the Christian Fundamentalist Tea Party fringe to be able to do without our help 😆

Why did the Pilgrim fathers leave again?

So they took their creationist fundamentalist views and practice religious freedom in the US of A 😉

"Is that 'Special' as in 'Special Needs'?"

-Tucker UK

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Congratulations, your **** of the day medallion is in the post

I dont think anyone is actually knocking all yanks despite the repeated claims.

^this

A few people were getting a bit upset earlier, but this is actually quite a sensible thread by STW standards.... ignoring the construction worker on page 1 😯

Edit: having seen the post above, maybe a few people are knocking them....