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1 in 4 Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun

grip said:
1 in 4 Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun




I thought this article was about America prior to Galileo? Scary.... :shock:
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Yes indeed. Scary thought that so many Americans are that ignorant. It makes me wonder what they do indeed think- that the earth is just out here floating in space, and there is no relationship between the planets, sun, moon, stars, and everything else the universe consists of? Do they not think at all about where they are? That frankly just blows my mind.
 
Cardinal said:
Maybe I'm missing something, but what are you saying? That YEC's don't exist? Or that they're incredibly rare?
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Just asked my Wife if she knew anyone who beieves that and she said no. As a matter of fact, those people were marginalized in her church.

Sounds like false propoganda created by the Left.
 
WCH said:
Just asked my Wife if she knew anyone who beieves that and she said no. As a matter of fact, those people were marginalized in her church.

Sounds like false propoganda created by the Left.
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Anecdotal evidence does not disprove
Ex) A girl I know school in school is a racist. Sounds like racism is gone is false propaganda created by the Right (which is of course absurd)
 
Cardinal said:
Insisting on young earth creationism is stupidity, not just spectacularly wrong.
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Yet you just admitted above that in fact they are very likely to not be stupid.
 
Has nothing to do with any "dumbing down of the schools", nor do I think it has anything to do with young earth. I think it has more to do with the survey. Sampling can be a real bitch and folks don't always get it right. Some times they don't get it right on purpose, like when they're stumping for money.
 
cpwill said:
Yet you just admitted above that in fact they are very likely to not be stupid.
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I already addressed this with regards to compartmentalized stupidity.
 
lizzie said:
Yes indeed. Scary thought that so many Americans are that ignorant. It makes me wonder what they do indeed think- that the earth is just out here floating in space, and there is no relationship between the planets, sun, moon, stars, and everything else the universe consists of? Do they not think at all about where they are? That frankly just blows my mind.
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Based on my decades of watching and analyzing people, I think a lot of it may be attributable to the NIMBY mindset: if it isn't in my backyard, or neighborhood, or important in my everyday life... it might as well not exist and I won't be bothered to think about it.

As long as the sun comes UP in the morning, they just don't give a **** which circles what.
 
WCH said:
Just asked my Wife if she knew anyone who beieves that and she said no. As a matter of fact, those people were marginalized in her church.

Sounds like false propoganda created by the Left.
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So your wife doesn't know any young earth creationists? Well, I guess that's that, then.

Again, google the polls on young earth creationists. Again, the polls don't fluctuate very wildly.
 
Goshin said:
Based on my decades of watching and analyzing people, I think a lot of it may be attributable to the NIMBY mindset: if it isn't in my backyard, or neighborhood, or important in my everyday life... it might as well not exist and I won't be bothered to think about it.

As long as the sun comes UP in the morning, they just don't give a **** which circles what.
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I just can't imagine not being interested in where I am, and my planet's relationship to everything else out there.
 
lizzie said:
I just can't imagine not being interested in where I am, and my planet's relationship to everything else out there.
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Ditto, but I've known quite a few people who just don't care about anything outside their narrow life experience and tend not to retain information about things they consider irrelevant to same.

More than once I've heard people, who were NOT necessarily idiots, when confronted by some bit of astronomical information ponder out loud, "Now, the sun goes around the Earth... or is it the other way around?" They've probably been exposed to the information at some point, they just mentally classified it as "irrelevant to my real life" and as soon as the test was over they promptly relegated that datum to some shriveled and lonely neuron crouching amid the cobwebs of some unfashionable corner of their brain, where it eventually died from boredom and a lack of company. :)

I dated a girl once (briefly), who was like that. She couldn't remember which went around which and would tell you frankly she didn't care. She thought men in Scotland were "stupid and gay for wearing skirts" when the matter came to her attention... when I tried to point out that it was a cultural norm there she waved her hand at me and said "no man wears a skirt in public unless he's stupid and gay" and declined to think any further on the matter.

Her mind was as narrow as her world and I ditched her as fast as possible. :)
 
Goshin said:
I dated a girl once (briefly), who was like that. She couldn't remember which went around which and would tell you frankly she didn't care. She thought men in Scotland were "stupid and gay for wearing skirts" when the matter came to her attention... when I tried to point out that it was a cultural norm there she waved her hand at me and said "no man wears a skirt in public unless he's stupid and gay" and declined to think any further on the matter.

Her mind was as narrow as her world and I ditched her as fast as possible. :)
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Wow. Hard to believe. :(
 
Perotista said:
Dumbing down of our schools in the basics. We teach to the lowest student instead of trying to bring the class up to the highest student. 65% back when i went to school would be failing. 70% was the lowest passing grade. And to think, these people vote.
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I think you may want to correct that last sentence to "And to think, these people run for political offfices." you can thank me later.
 
That's absurd.

Everyone knows that the earth and the sun circle america.
 
grip said:
1 in 4 Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun

I thought this article was about America prior to Galileo? Scary.... :shock:
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pats Grip on his shoulders

Well look at the bright side. At least the majority of 74 percent know that the earth revolves around the sun...

Plus evolution not being known may be the play of the religious. So it is not that Americans do not know but it is because they were influenced instead...

:confused: :(
 
Cardinal said:
So your wife doesn't know any young earth creationists? Well, I guess that's that, then.

Again, google the polls on young earth creationists. Again, the polls don't fluctuate very wildly.
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What I'm saying is you AND the polls are over-generalizing.

My Wife grew up in a large town, me in a small one. I'd say our polling is better than Gallop.
 
grip said:
1 in 4 Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun

I thought this article was about America prior to Galileo? Scary.... :shock:
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This don't surprise me any. I have a friend who's friend back east didn't even know what a star was and had never even seen one before...besides the obviousness of our sun being a star...but to him it wasn't a "star"..it was The Sun. (its what happens when you live in big cities your entire life I guess...)
 
It doesn't matter. What matters is that people are taught sensitivity and how to act correct socially.
 
WCH said:
What I'm saying is you AND the polls are over-generalizing.

My Wife grew up in a large town, me in a small one. I'd say our polling is better than Gallop.
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Your polling is not better than gallop.
 
WCH said:
You're right, it's not polling at all, it's real life observation.
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I really hope you're just funning me.
 
WCH said:
Just letting you know polls are extremely flawed.
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Individually they certainly can be. But taken in tandem with multiple other polls you can actually get a pretty good picture of the truth. And this strategy will always give more accurate results than your "real life observation." If I did what you did, I could conclude that half of all people are Mexican and everyone wants to be in show business.
 
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