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http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060810/sc_space/uslagsworldingraspofgeneticsandacceptanceofevolution
Apparently, the United States is the second lowest in the world with the ability to grasp genetics and accept evolution. Seriously, are we that stupid? I bet Denmark, Sweden, France, and Japan are laughing their rears off at us, since up to 80% of their population understands genetics and accepts evolution. The only country that was worse than us in this study was Turkey.
"The analysis found that Americans with fundamentalist religious beliefs—defined as belief in substantial divine control and frequent prayer—were more likely to reject evolution than Europeans with similar beliefs. The researchers attribute the discrepancy to differences in how American Christian fundamentalist and other forms of Christianity interpret the Bible."
"While American fundamentalists tend to interpret the Bible literally and to view Genesis as a true and accurate account of creation, mainstream Protestants in both the United States and Europe instead treat Genesis as metaphorical, the researchers say."
Favorite line of this article: “American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalist, which is why Turkey and we are so close,” said study co-author Jon Miller of Michigan State University.
Finally this gives people in the U.S. a reality check; if we don't shape up we're the laughing stock of the world.. what are your opinions?
Apparently, the United States is the second lowest in the world with the ability to grasp genetics and accept evolution. Seriously, are we that stupid? I bet Denmark, Sweden, France, and Japan are laughing their rears off at us, since up to 80% of their population understands genetics and accepts evolution. The only country that was worse than us in this study was Turkey.
"The analysis found that Americans with fundamentalist religious beliefs—defined as belief in substantial divine control and frequent prayer—were more likely to reject evolution than Europeans with similar beliefs. The researchers attribute the discrepancy to differences in how American Christian fundamentalist and other forms of Christianity interpret the Bible."
"While American fundamentalists tend to interpret the Bible literally and to view Genesis as a true and accurate account of creation, mainstream Protestants in both the United States and Europe instead treat Genesis as metaphorical, the researchers say."
Favorite line of this article: “American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalist, which is why Turkey and we are so close,” said study co-author Jon Miller of Michigan State University.
Finally this gives people in the U.S. a reality check; if we don't shape up we're the laughing stock of the world.. what are your opinions?
), and when you say "except" that we evolved, that implies that there is sufficient evidence for evolution's validity, but there are still more flaws in it then solid proof. As a christian I believe in Micro evolution, where there are small changes in species to adapt, it's around us, look how people who live in different climates have different features to help them survive. The thing I don't believe in is Macro evolution, thus enters the theory of evolution. New species coming from a species not the same. The closest Darwin came to prove it was with Micro evolution, with finches. He saw that on an island, the finches had adapted, some had beaks longer and skinnier than the others, they lived healthier and longer, they had adapted. But you want to know something that didn't happen? A new species. If there were new species coming from others we'd see transition fossils, which we don't. "Successful production of a 200-component functioning organism requires at least 200 beneficial mutations. The odds of getting that many successive beneficial mutations is r200, where r is the rate of beneficial mutations. Even if r is 0.5 (and it is really much smaller), that makes the odds worse than 1 in 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, which is impossibly small." That source is from 
