cheetah

Did we talk about this? I don't think so. but who else saw the stat in Sci Am's mag last month that more people believe in the 6 day creation myth than in evolution?!?! (In this country, of course.) I was really amazed. I guess I am just insulated, having been in a university environment for so long, I thought we were representative of the country, but I guess not. And before that I went to a total backwoods school in the most rural and hick area that I thought it was just natural that they had backwoods, hick beliefs. now I am sad to find I was actually exactly backwards in my guess about people.

jhallum

Oh yeah. I tend to do most of my crevo discussions on an extremely conservative website (hint: begins with free and ends with republic). At first I was pretty sure that there were a large amount of reasonable people, but lately? Whew. The creationist wackos are coming out of the woodwork. There are quite few people there, of which I am one, that work to educate, but there are some people who work real hard to be ignorant.

For those who remember medved from Talk.origins. Yeah, he's there now.

<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/635670/posts?page=87#87" target="_blank">Medved's work.</a>

We have a really dedicated fellow who puts

\<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/624384/posts" target="_blank">this</a> together. It also acts as a pretty exhaustive list of all of the crevo threads on that particular site. There have been a lot of them, and some of been very contentious. You begin to learn about real ignorance there. It could be worse than Baptist Board. On the other hand, I've met some pretty smart people there, too, so it balances out.

mac_philo

It's a depressing statistic. May this quotation from Wittgenstein lighten the mood:

"[ital]Very[/i] intelligent and well-educated people believe in the story of creation in the Bible, while others hold is as proven false, and the grounds of the latter are well known to the former."