Evolution is a US phenomena, outside these borders(and maybe a few fascist "european countries"), it's a non-issue.
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What this idiot may mean it´s that, outside United States, people don´t debate so hotly about Evolution. But that is, of course, because we all accept it as VALID.
"Sanitation is a US phenomena, outside these borders(and maybe a few fascist "European countries"), it's a non-issue."
But yeah, outside the US, it is a non-issue.. Because they don't have fucktards like you screaming that science is wrong.
Evolution is a US phenomena? So if you want to stop evolving, does that mean you should leave the country?
Even more ironic is that he got it right for all the wrong reasons. Yes, it's not an issue where people accept it based on the evidence.
You are absolutely right, jeff and eddie, outside the US it's a non-issue,evolution is considered a scientific fact and is taught as such. Only in the US are we trying to regress away from science back into the "Dark Ages" by teaching a religious dogma in place of PROVEN science fact. Is it any wonder our kid's butts are getting kicked by kids from "third world countries" with one twentieth of education bucks in science competitions and why all our "high tech" jobs are going oversees?
Lainey,
The rest of Canada is a wee bit embarrassed by degree of American influenced fundyism that has infected Alberta, Canada's bible belt. That being the case, the idea of teaching creationism as science would never become the public issue here that it is in the States. We'll teach science in science class, thank-you.
If by "non-issue", you mean "creationists are few and far between so nobody argues about evolution", then yes, it is a non-issue outside of the US.
I think he might've misinterpreted this article from New Scientist :
Religious fundamentalism, bitter partisan politics and poor science education have all contributed to this denial of evolution in the US, says Jon Miller of Michigan State University in East Lansing, who conducted the survey with his colleagues. "The US is the only country in which [the teaching of evolution] has been politicised," he says. "Republicans have clearly adopted this as one of their wedge issues. In most of the world, this is a non-issue. "
The reason its a "non-issue' outside of the US is that most educated countries in our world pretty much agree its right, and thinks the US is full of a bunch of morons.
Note that China, Japan, and most of India for example, don't have a debate. It is what it is. Which equates to over a quarter of the world in one fell swoop.
Add in all those Europeans, a lot of Russians, and probably more Asian countires and your esult in the "no issue' being "They think you be a moron."
And stuff.
Blaque - If by "They" you speak for an entire country, it may be a case of the pot calling the kettle black, if "they" think we are all morons. Don't forget that this assbag represents a fringe minority group who have no power what-so-ever. If they had, don't you think we would be a theocracy of screaming christians stoning pants wearing women on football fields?
Hi McCulloch!
I'm embarrassed by it too. :o(
A Creationist museum just opened up about an hour from here, in a place called Big Valley. Welcome to Kentucky North.
It is a non-issue. I can't talk for the rest of Europe, but us Brits love our evolution. We actually quite like the good parts of the Bible, too. We're pretty cool, if I may say so myself.
I suspect the guotation marks around "european countries" are there because jeff and eddie are pretty hazy about anything outside the USA. No, J & E,,, the world does NOT cease to exist beyond the US coastline.
Grrr,, make that 'quotation" not "guotation",, apologies for the typo.
The United States is behind everyone except Turkey on the Evolution issue. This month's Geotimes[/] had a column on that:
The results are in, and they’re not pretty. The United States leads Western nations all 30 of them in ignorance about evolution. We have a higher percentage of citizens who don’t accept evolution than any other developed country does. Oh
except Turkey. The reason why these two countries are on top (or at the bottom, as the case may be) is that they have more fundamentalists than other countries. The only difference is that Turkey’s are Muslims and ours are Christians.
It’s not the business of science to try to dissuade people from their religious beliefs. That’s one of many reasons why we don’t fund scientific initiatives to convert fundamentalists to accepting evolution. On the other hand, lots of fundamentalists spend time and effort trying to convince people that evolution is full of holes, and that anything connected with it is wrong including the geologic timetable, radiometric dating, plate tectonic theory and the history of the Grand Canyon. This is not the domain of religion, and as most scientists know, the folks peddling anti-evolution are almost never real scientists.
Padian, Kevin, Geotimes[/],"Improving Evolution Education"
http://www.geotimes.org/feb08/article.html?id=comment.html
Creationism is a US phenomena, outside these borders( and maybe a few theocratic "Islamic Countries"), it's a nonissue.
Fixed for you, that was easy.
"Evolution is a US phenomena"
Post-2005 (Kitzmiller vs. Dover), Creationists are stretching to reach those last particles of argumental straw dust, in such a way as to make Shaun T's 'Insanity Workout' seem like Pilates for the over-60s.
Your 'I.D.' (i.e. 'Creationism by Stealth') plan B drowned years ago. As with so many theories, Evolution proves that they have a rather nasty habit of becoming facts (the LHC. The Higgs-Boson found ). We have the fossils. We win .
Deal. With. It.
Sorry, I thought all the European countries were socialist/communist/marxist hellholes?
Now we are fascist, too?
Oh wait, I forgot. You don't know what any of these words really mean, do you?
There are very few fascist European countries left. Italy and Spain have been democracies for quite some time now. Some of the former Soviet states and former Yugoslavian states are less than democratic, but if they want to join the EU they have to become democracies first and abolish the death penalty.
Evolution is indeed a non-issue in most of the world, in that everyone accept it as fact.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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