Comments on: Why are most Americans creationists? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: abb3w https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545223 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:08:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545223 “Parents” would appear to be one “some underlying thing”. Or, more exactly, “teh stupid crappy edumacated churchy parents”.

Pete Rooke: Not that I agree with you but you’re missing geographic isolation in which particular brands of ‘crazy’ are allowed to flourish unchallenged.

Yes; you have to consider information flows in space, as well as over time. So, “teh stupid crappy edumacated churchy neighbors” also.

]]> By: third world student https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545222 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:47:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545222 Greg, thanks for the explantion about average. You explained it better than my statistic’s teacher.

About the god stuff, I think maybe some people just can’t tolerate the idea of dying.

]]> By: Donna B. https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545221 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:38:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545221 Is anyone actively looking for a logic gene yet?

]]> By: Fiona https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545220 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:49:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545220 Most Americans are not creationists. They are simply afraid to admit that they either don’t know, don’t care, or don’t tow the line.

]]> By: Andrew https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545219 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545219 Let me know when the tee-shirt comes out!

]]> By: Lisa A https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545218 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:29:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545218 [11]I asked a bunch of such students if they thought Aesops fables were useless in teaching morality even though they are obviously fictions.

And it may well be that some of the fables are better than others as morality object lessons.

]]> By: trend line https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545217 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:22:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545217 follow me

]]> By: multimodal distribution https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545216 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:07:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545216 Not necessarily

]]> By: uniform distribution https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545215 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:28:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545215 It all evens out in the end.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545214 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:23:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/17/why-are-most-americans-creatio/#comment-545214 katydid13 (and person upthread whose comment I can’t see because something is borked on Sb at the moment), there are also atheists out there with very little education who reject evolution because they ain’t gonna let nobody tell them nothin’ nohow. Mentioning correlation and speculating on the relationships is not the same thing as embracing a Venn diagram of perfectly overlapping circles.

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