Where have you been? That's been regularly proved over and over and over and over again. 40% seems low, though.

(Snakes don't talk? huh?)

I've been called a snake...

Yeah, hard being ASSociated with those creationist. And YES, they vote, AND yes, the collapse of society as we know it is imminent.

God help us...oh, wait....

sadly, i'm not surprised by this number. it explains a lot about other things in this country.

I saw this this morning and I just banged my head on the table.
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What is disturbing is that the morons seem to be so successful in getting elected to Congress. I doubt anyone of intellect makes it into US politics.

This is not anything to be surprised about. I find it something
to be celebrated. It proves that I am one of the smartest
people on the
Earth, along with you & others, of course....

Seriously: doesn't that decrease your social anxiety about existence
knowing that your fellow humans are nothing to be feared...
cuz they are just so stupid....

This is not anything to be surprised about. I find it something
to be celebrated. It proves that I am one of the smartest
people on the
Earth, along with you & others, of course....

Seriously: doesn't that decrease your social anxiety about existence
knowing that your fellow humans are nothing to be feared...
cuz they are just so stupid....

I really think the percentage is closer to 70 to 75%. {R}

I think the percentage is actually higher than that. Or maybe it is just my neighborhood.

I am unconvinced. People say all sorts of things to look right. They're afraid of who might be listening, so to speak. Maybe the Big Nada will smite them if they speak their minds...so they fudge it and give the "look right" answer. Then again, hard to say.

The real shocker is that hominids have not died out besides ourselves. Every indication from contemporary genetic science is that chimpanzees should be reclassified: Homo Chimpansis. They are closer to us than either Homo Erectus or Homo Habilis ever were.
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Of course snakes talk. They run our judicial system.

This number sounds low to me. Where I live it is much much higher.

I just have to wonder how Sarah Palin is going to explain this after showing her little daughter the million year old fossils on that Paid Advertisement show she's got going. ha!

Now I have a headache and need to lay down. Thanks, Amy.

Hey Safe Bet, if you want a laugh, google images "Doonesbury on Evolution". It's a conversation between Duke and his doctor.

Duke: TB? My God! Are you sure?
Doc: Afraid so. But we caught it early.

Duke: So my prognosis is good?
Doc: Depends. Are you a creationist?

Duke: Why yes I am. Why do you ask?
Doc: Because I need to know whether you want me to treat the TB bug as it was before antibiotics, or as the multiple-drug-resistant strain it has since evolved into.

Duke: Evolved?
Doc: Your choice. If we go with the Noah's Ark version, I'll just give you streptomycin.

Duke: Um...what are the newer drugs like?
Doc: They're intelligently designed.

Uh, Amy,
What leads you to believe that the population of American Morons is limited to Creationists?

I guess I've been out of the loop, too. Four out of 10 Americans thing God created animals and plants, one by one? Astonishing.

We are a weird group indeed.

I guess I've been out of the loop, too. Four out of 10 Americans think God created animals and plants, one by one? Astonishing.

We are a weird group indeed.

Something like 70% believe in angels, year after year. One result is they wait for social justice to be flown in, rather than act on their own behalf to secure it.

Oh, good grief.

Only 40 percent ?

Yes, 40% does seem a bit low. And yet we continue to survive against the odds. Go figure. ;)

Remember that three of those four are probably children under 20 of the other one in four, who is under 25. If you are very busy having children, you have no time for critical thinking. It is much easier to read pretty pretty picture books. Noah's Ark is a lot cuter than the HMS Beagle. And who cares about finch's beaks when you can have heterosexual, married animals promoting the status quo? For all we know, the Galapagos islands were the Swinger Party of evolution.

Sorry, was that the wrong moron rant? I was confusing it with the Christian groups who are trying to sue the gays for using the rainbow flag. Because, you know, the rainbow is god's sign of his covenant to us that he won't destroy the earth, it has already been trademarked. Did you know that a sitting member of Congress who will be put on a panel to discuss the health of the earth and GLOBAL WARMING believes that because of this ***covenant*** we don't need to worry about anything because God promised he wouldn't do it again. !! Are 40% of Congress morons?

And most of them believe the End of Times and the Rapture Spaceship are coming soon. In that same survey, 37% of college graduates believe in Creationism. I wonder why the Bible has no reference to people interacting in some way with dinosaurs. Seems there would be at least one or two good stories.

"I cannot be kind here. These people think the Flintstones is a documentary"--Lewis Black

The divine is badass. That said, there are alot of people who take the written word too damn seriously. Hell, most of those people take LIFE too damn seriously. Consider the source, babe.

-R-

What about the 6% who don't think at all? I find that really scary, even more so that I know some of them. Let's all believe in magic. That way we don't have to take responsibility for screwing up the earth. Mother Nature (a better rendition of god) doesn't really care what we think, if we fuck it up the end of time will come for our species sooner than later. It will be a natural process, no need to blame god for it.

Not as scary, and it is subjective of course, to me as 42 percent of Democrats (per Zogby) thinking 9/11 was an inside job or Bush let it happen.

And not nearly as scary as the Left, in general, refusing to see Islamist Terror as a threat to atheists, other Muslims, Jews, Christians, the liberal west, and everyone who is not with them.

Someone who doesn't believe in evolution, for example, is probably not going to kill us. Radical Islamists, if they can, are.

So... it's not ok for us to bash your way of life (being gay) but you can insult and bash ours?