It is a sad commentary on our declining educational system that sixteen percent of high school biology teachers believe in creationism. These teachers are guilty of educational malpractice. This ignorance could be cured by a judicious reading of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. Religion has no place in the sphere of public education. If people chose to believe in fairy tales outside the classroom that is their business; however, mythology has no place in a science classroom.

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According to I Kings 7:23 (King James version), pi equals exactly 3. Don't you people know you have to take your Bible literally??
Geesh!

But seriously, I am damn SICK of stupid people literally ruining America.
Maybe the anti-evolutionists have a point, though.
Maybe human beings are NOT evolving -- evolving in the "getting better" meaning. Maybe we all ARE getting dumber and dumber as a species, like in the movie Idiocracy.

Duh, pass me 3 slices of pi, please.

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that the results were broken down state by state.

jdfu!

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that 16% of science teachers think we came from god's breath and mud, or that 3 times as many americans at large do? what are we teaching them in school?

get serious about reality, please!

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There's no reason for these stupid conflicts with science the more we learn of creation the greater we realize God's creation is..

The study of science is and should be the study of God's creation..it's vastness..we've only learned recently just how large Creation is our universe is, up until a few years ago we though our galaxy was the universe..now we know there are billions upon billions of galaxies and in them billions upon billions of stars around which can be any number to planets..

The Milky Way Galaxy alone our galaxy has 450-600 Billion stars and is over 100,000 light years across that's just our Galaxy and we though it was 7 light years high or deep but now we've learned it's closer to 13 light years high..that means it would take 13 years or more at the exact speed of light just to go from it's top to bottom and 100,000 years at the speed of light, to ride from one end to another that just our galaxy the Milky Way..

Some day we'll realize that all this and all we still don't know of it is all God's consciousness for for God there is no time, not 7 days not 13.7 billion years no time at all none only the eternal present moment..and we are all in it, right now there is only now..

Nothing exists outside of God's consciousness not even space/time..

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I find it absolutely amazing that so many people are mistrustful of basic science.

I want all these folks who mistrust science to take their computers, microwaves and other gadgets and give them away. Let God melt that cheese on your leftover pizza.

On a similar note, I used to teach TV Production/Journalism in a high school. I was mortified to read a national survey that said 30% of current high schoolers thought no news organization should run a story unless it was approved by the government first. Seriously. One third of the population said all news stories should be approved by the government. They considered that to be appropriate and still qualify as freedom of the press.

With a population this ignorant, I do not know where to begin. Perhaps I should move. That's a start.

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Stupid is as stupid does...Education? Nah, The most uneducated people on the planet are right here in the good old US of A!

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I guess these boneheads will figure out that there is no god when they die and the only thing that happens to them is they become worm food. Can't wait.

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and began to be codified under the "Contract On America" with Newt and his gang of thieves.

We have lost an entire generation (or more!) to this nonsense. Think of what that means.

If I ever questioned whether or not we're doomed, this article confirmed my most frightening scenario.

Maybe I'll contract a deadly disease and die so I don't have to witness the end.

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...that it is done on purpose, various fundie churches sending people into those fields, like pharmacists that don't dispense birth control...

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As a sophomore undergraduate student in Physics, your homework in Probability
and Statistics class may include figuring out when the second coming would be
required, assuming that the bible was 100% true in the year zero. That is, when
would the bible be down to 50% true? The popular and professors' answer in
1965 was the year 500. The true answer: A friend of mine was born and raised in
Budapest, Hungary. As an adult, he came here and stayed. After 25 years, he
visited his home town of Budapest. He was unable to communicate with his high
school classmates because the Hungarian language had changed so much. The
correct answer is less than 25 years. The first gospel was not written down until
50 years after the alleged events and then in a different language. The people who
told the story were at about the same level of civilization as "wild Indians", I mean
Native Americans before Columbus got here. We have all played or seen played
the game called "Telephone" in which a story is passed down a line of re-tellers.
By the Sixth re-telling, the story has no resemblance to the original. The gospel
story had to have been re-told at least 6 times before it was mis-translated the first
time. [Note that whoever wrote it down the first time was free to write whatever
he wanted to. The storytellers were illiterate and unable to check his written text
by reading it. Besides that, he wrote in Greek rather than Aramaic.] Conclusion:
There is no truth anywhere in the bible, and there never was. There is no way to
know what "jesus" or "mohammed" or any other such character actually said or
did.

ALL of the jurisdictions that were formerly in the jurisdiction of religion have
been taken over by Science. There is no longer a need to debate the issue.
Religion is an unfortunate side effect of having evolved from a chimpanzee-like
animal in a very brief 6 or 7 million years. "God" will not save us from the
consequences of global warming or an asteroid impact or a tornado because there
is no such critter as "god.".] Ethics and morality are instinctive, not derived from
religion. Female instinct has greater force in morality than male instinct because
the female is in command of the sexual encounter. Look up "Sociobiology". The
origin of the Universe is the subject of Cosmology which is part of astronomy
which is part of the science of physics.
Religion is a SCAM. ANY religion, there are 10,000 to choose from at any one
time. People keep inventing new religions [for the benefit of the "prophet," of
course] and forgetting other religions. ALL preachers, priests, imams, rabbis,
iatolas, etc. belong in jail for "grand theft, bunko type".

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Religion is caused by any one or more of about half a dozen mental illnesses.
The truth about religion can be found in these books:

"The Neuropsychological bases of god beliefs" Dr. Michael A. Persinger MD,
psychiatrist 1987 "Religious people are just like my temporal lobe patients"

"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind" Julian
Jaynes Professor, Harvard University 1976 "Religious people are just like
schizophrenic patients"

"The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice" Roger A. MacKinnon, M.D.,
Robert Michels, M.D. W. B. Saunders Co. 1971 "Religiosity is a common
symptom [of] schizophrenic patients"

"The God delusion" by Richard Dawkins. "Religion is caused by a kind of
computer virus that infects the living computer, the human brain."

"The Science of Good and Evil" by Michael Shermer, 2004 "Morality and Ethics
are now in the jurisdiction of Science and greatly improved thereby."

Many books in the new science called "Sociobiology": Morals and ethics are
instinctive and they evolved.

"God: The Failed Hypothesis" by Victor Stenger Scientific proof that god does
not exist.

"The God Part of the Brain" by Matthew Alper 1996. "The USA is anomolusly
religious because many early founder groups were religiously insane and fleeing
prosecution in Europe. Religion is a genetic disorder."

"The Accidental Mind" by David J. Linden, 2007 Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press. Religion is caused by the extreme klugeyness of the "designed"
by evolution brain. In particular, the narrative creation system cannot be turned
off. It generates false narratives that are believed by the generating person. This is
seen in experiments done in the laboratory. This book has the best explanation of
resistance to evolution: "There has also been an assumption that if one accepts the
idea that life developed without divine intervention, it necessarily follows that all
aspects of religious thought must be rejected. Those who take this line of
argument to extremes argue that when religious thought is rejected moral and
social codes will degenerate and "the law of the jungle" will be all that is left. It is
imagined by religious fundamentalists that those who do not share their particular
religious faith are incapable of leading moral lives." These suppositions are not
true many times over. Linden later mentions that the creationists [intelligent
design advocates] are exactly 180 degrees wrong rather than just a little wrong.
Being exactly wrong, they are unable to unlearn their error. See Sociobiology or
Sciobio.

"Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism" edited by Petto &
Godfrey, 2007. The ID and creationist crowd are trying to do away with science.
They see science as a "godless religion." Science is a process, not a religion.

"Manufacturing Belief" by Lewis Wolpert
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/05/15/lewis_wolpert/

"The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris

"Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon", by Daniel Dennett
Let's do scientific research on religion and find out what causes it.

"Origins of the Modern Mind" by Merlin Donald 1991 "So what did you expect
from a brain that is based on the Chimpanzee brain?

"Atheism, A Case Against God" by George Smith

"God is not Great; how religion poisons everything" by Christopher Hitchens, 2007

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I believe in Science. Nature isn't just the final authority on truth, Nature is
the Only authority. There are zero human authorities. Scientists do not
vote on what is the truth. There is only one vote and Nature owns it.
We find out what Nature's vote is by doing Scientific [public and
replicable] experiments. Scientific [public and replicable] experiments
are the only source of truth. [To be public, it has to be visible to other
people in the room. What goes on inside one person's head isn't public
unless it can be seen on an X-ray or another instrument.]
Science is a simple faith in Scientific experiments and a simple absolute
lack of faith in everything else. Why? Science works. You are reading
this on a desktop computer, a product of engineering made possible by
Quantum Mechanics. Religion doesn't work.


BACKUP/BACKGROUND:
Science is the ultimate Protestant Reformation in which Religion is
reformed out of existence. As I remember the Protestant Reformation, it
happened because the invention of printing press enabled everybody to
own and read and interpret the bible. Priests were no longer necessary
when everybody could read the source of knowledge. Science takes the
next step: Ancient text is not the source of knowledge when every person
can find out the truth by carefully following a procedure called "Science"
for him/herself. There is another implicit step here. The implicit step is
realizing that ancient people did not have some source of knowledge that
we do not. In fact, we have enormous knowledge and "The Ancients" did
not. Even people in the middle ages had technology that the ancients did
not, such as crossbows or even longbows. Yet there are still people who
believe that "The Ancients" knew things that we don't. I find that
describing people as old stone age, new stone age, copper age, iron age,
mideval, etc does not work. What works is describing "The Ancients" as
"just a bunch of wild indians". The description that works is inaccurate in
the details, but it gets the correct message across. It is understood. This
is said with apologies to stone age native Americans who were no more
stone-age than stone age Europeans or stone age middle easterners or
stone age anybody else.

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