The annual Gallup Poll on how dumb Americans are has come out, and they got less dumb.
A new Gallup poll on public opinion about evolution hints at a slightly higher rate of acceptance of evolution in the United States over the years. Asked in December 2010 “[w]hich of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings,” 38% of the respondents accepted “Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process,” 16% accepted “Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process,” and 40% accepted “God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.”
Details here.
The NCSE has compiled a year-end list of the top ten stories related to evolution (vis-a-vis evo-creo and education) of the year. Check it out.
We just passed the fifth anniversary (Dec. 17th) of theKitzmiller vs. Dover decision. Here’s a review of what PZ Myers calls “Kitzmas” … the annual celebration of this event. And, another story about Kitzmas is here.
These are all courtesy of the National Center for Science Education.
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Less dumb, but still awfully dumb. It’s depressing.
Until just a few years ago, I’d been under the delusion that creationism was almost as much of a fringe position among the general public as it was scientifically. Sure, I knew that most people were still religious, but I assumed that they were theistic evolutionists (which was the way I’d been raised myself). It was shocking when I learned the real situation. It’s as if half of the adult population actually believed in Santa Claus. (Hell, maybe they do.)
Oh god, Rupert Murdoch is going to go ballistic – this could easily cost Roger Ailes his job.
Accommodationism rul3z! Well, I expect to see that claim soon. See, “Rockstars of Science” wasn’t even printed that long ago … proof! proof!
Oh dear. 16% is an IMPROVEMENT?
Very much “Oh dear”.