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mohandasgandhi:

40% Of Americans, Majority Of Republicans, Reject Evolution
This is rather… disheartening to say the least.

My neighbor brought up evolution once, said that if evolution was real he could “fuck a monkey and make a human”. Perhaps no one believes it because no one understands it? Yet at the same time that doesn’t seem likely either, I was in seventh grade when I discovered you can’t fuck monkeys and make humans, if not earlier than that. I vote school kids should read Michael Crichton novels.

Michael Crichton might not be a better source of science education, given his climate change denialism.

I’ve read State of Fear and it didn’t change my opinion on climate change. Of course I can’t expect that for everyone else, but I was thinking more along the lines of books like Next.

Many middle schoolers and even high schoolers aren’t as fortunate to receive proper science education. Many do not accept evolution because they do not understand it; they may get more information from their churches and the popular media than they do from their science teachers. Thus we end up with persisting misconceptions about evolution, genetics, and climate change as people become more entrenched in their beliefs when exposed to new information. The poll itself repeatedly and incorrectly refers to creationism as an equivalent theory, rather than as an untested hypothesis. This is a failure of the scientific community; we even end up with relatively educated people who believe it’s possible to clone dinosaurs from fossilized DNA.

dendroica:

corruptpolitics:

mohandasgandhi:

40% Of Americans, Majority Of Republicans, Reject Evolution

This is rather… disheartening to say the least.

My neighbor brought up evolution once, said that if evolution was real he could “fuck a monkey and make a human”. Perhaps no one believes it because no one understands it? Yet at the same time that doesn’t seem likely either, I was in seventh grade when I discovered you can’t fuck monkeys and make humans, if not earlier than that. I vote school kids should read Michael Crichton novels.

Michael Crichton might not be a better source of science education, given his climate change denialism.

I’ve read State of Fear and it didn’t change my opinion on climate change. Of course I can’t expect that for everyone else, but I was thinking more along the lines of books like Next.

Many middle schoolers and even high schoolers aren’t as fortunate to receive proper science education. Many do not accept evolution because they do not understand it; they may get more information from their churches and the popular media than they do from their science teachers. Thus we end up with persisting misconceptions about evolution, genetics, and climate change as people become more entrenched in their beliefs when exposed to new information. The poll itself repeatedly and incorrectly refers to creationism as an equivalent theory, rather than as an untested hypothesis. This is a failure of the scientific community; we even end up with relatively educated people who believe it’s possible to clone dinosaurs from fossilized DNA.

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