[NetBehaviour] [stuff-it] FW: Only 33 per cent of Americans believe in evolution

Simon Biggs s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
Mon Jul 13 12:58:03 CEST 2009


But how many Americans believe in the rest of the world?

Simon Biggs
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From: patrick simons <patricksimons1 at googlemail.com>
Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:29:35 +0100
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] [stuff-it] FW: Only 33 per cent of Americans
believe in evolution

how about only 33% of the rest of the world believe in Americans?
Patrick

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Geert Dekkers <geert at nznl.com> wrote:
> Actually, what I found most interesting in the article was that while 33% of
>  Americans don't "believe" in evolution, 57% consider science important (or
> was it "extremely" important?)  And I'd add, even the most fanatical
> creationists rely om the internal combustion engine to get to their meetings,
> showing that being religious and (at least) the use of scientic achievements
> don't rule each other out.
> 
> Geert
> 
> On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Rob Myers wrote:
> 
>> There are healthy debates about some of the details but there are no serious
>> scientific theories that are alternatives to evolution by natural selection.
>> If there were they would replace evolution as experiments and studies
>> confirmed them. That's the beauty of science when it works.
>> 
>> Science doesn't require faith, just one less philosophical assumption than
>> religion. The practice of science requires personal drive and curiosity, and
>> is subject to social pressures, but it is the least worst means we have of
>> acquiring knowledge about the world. Art is a complement to it but religion
>> has declared itself a rival.
>> 
>> - rob.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 13, 2009 9:47 AM, "Olga" <olga.panades at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is a very interesting discussion but I was hoping to hear some
>>>  alternative scientific theories. For what I know, and I know very
>>>  little on the subject, there are alternative scientific theories that
>>>  challenge the theory of evolution as we know it. Can anyone give me a
>>>  bit more information on those?
>>>  
>>>  And also, I think science involves big amounts of faith as well...
>>>  
>>>  --
>>>  Olga
>>>  http://www.ungravitational.net
>>>  http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com
>>>  
>>> 
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