63% - Reject Darwin's Theory of Evolution

[malkin767]

In the 150 years since he published his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, and the 200 years since the date of his birth celebrated this week, Charles Darwin has failed to convince the majority of Americans of the validity of his theories; an August 2006 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion &

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[idunn]

I could be shocked, but sadly I'm not.

In the meantime, I'm just gonna stare at my icon and enjoy the sight of Darwin raising the roof. Happy birthday, big D.

[hellolindseylu]

That doesn't surprise me considering those Americans believe that evolutions means we came from the monkeys in the zoo.

I'm mostly just embarrassed.

[athene454]

Honestly, that's the main problem- people have no idea what Darwin was really postulating, nor what the theory of evolution actually states. Even friends/acquaintances that I consider to be relatively intelligent sometimes come out with a remark like, "I guess he just hasn't evolved all the way from a monkey yet." It kills me.

[freecloud13]

Appalling.

[randomstasis]

I can't help thinking there must be some imposed bias there- if you asked people about applied evolution in practice, i.e., breeding for certain traits, you'd get opposite results- from the same respondants.

:(.

Science, what's that?

[whitevanilla]

Horrendously depressing, but not surprising.