Posted on 08/11/2006 11:54:04 AM PDT by presidio9
"Anyone who still beleives in evolution should read Coulter's 'Godless'."
Ann is not a scientist, is she? If not, why would I read anything she had to say about evolution. As it happens, I did read "Godless." She does nothing but repeat the same non-scientific stuff we read here every time the subject comes up.
That Americans reject evolution is not a concern.
That Americans don't know that all plants and animals have DNA is a bigger concern, but I seriously doubt that claim. It's possible Americans tuned out all discussion of genetics when the obvious fraud of evolution was so adamently pushed on them. But their other statistics appear biased, I bet this one is too.
This article is an obvious hit piece. It dredges up the myth that Christians believed in a flat earth. It falsely claims that scientists don't doubt evolution. It claims major political parties are making anti-evolution part of their platform, which is false. And it tries to minimize evolution doubters as "a small but vocal group of Christians", yet the article admits only 40% of Americans accept evolution.
But even these numbers are high according to recent polls. 77% of Republicans reject evolution of humans from another species. And so do a majority of democrats.
Are you saying because of a poll bioscience companies wont invest in America? I would wager that in the 1970's and early 1980's that America was just as or even more against or questionable of Evolution as now, even though some of the greatest biology discoveries were found here at that time, and many of the greatest discoveries are still taken place here in the USA, darn are whacky views.
This article seems to imply that opinions about evolution held by average Americans somehow impact research. They don't.
Kids who develop an interest in science will square it with their religious beliefs one way or another. I doubt that there are a number of potential Nobel prize winners digging ditches today instead of doing gene mapping because of religious issues.
We still seem to have all the scientists we need to remain on the bleeding edge of research.
As opposed to the pro-evolution non-science that comes up.
Evolutionists worship the events of the scopes trial the way liberals worship the events of the 'mccarthy' era.
Regardless of whether evolution is true or false, the fact of the matter is a lot of folks seem to enjoy fabricating evidence in favor of it.
You are right, that is a large part of it, but WHY is it that primarily Christian nations have developed the agriculture technology and processes to create such surpluses.
In times past as we were developing our agricultural abilites we would build churches as the one of the first most important buildings (before government buildings) in farm areas.
The church was at the center of those societies which flourished well ahead of non-Christian socieites.
Most non-Christian nations still can't figure out how to get the agriculture right because they do not have the cultural values necessary, in part. The other is that we are blessed by God.
No doubt.
Somehow I find it more pressing to have the 900million "peaceful" muslims denounce the 100million militant terrorist muslism.
...combined data from multiple studies over 20 years???? I once tried doing something like that in a stat course and my professor came close to spanking me with a keyboard.
I also can't beleve the average French peasant knows DNA from Beaujolais.
Maybe the "researchers" could explain why such a backward nation as the United States leads the world in science, including biotechnology??? Yet "advanced" nations like Turkey can't even figure out how to feed themselves. This study reeks of a waste of the perfectly good and harmless trees used to publish it.
Absurd nonsense. We dominate the Life Sciences. All these countries are Socialists to one extent or the other. Does that mean we should become Socialists? Just because a dogma is widely accepted does NOT make it a good idea.
Is Ann Coulter a subject expert in the field of biology?
This is silly. It is a bit like decrying that so few people speak Latin. Genetics is a specialized field and evolution contributes only marginally to the science. Where it might matter is that a research might suffer professionally if he didn't hold to the conventional wisdom of those in the department. He might not advance for the same reasons that a conservative in sociology might not advance: he can't get anone to publish because his reputation makes him suspect.
Evolution doesn't materially affect any practical science, but Evo's would have you believe that the sky is falling if we don't all accept evolution. Patrick Henry once posted an article that compared Christians to the Taliban and the article claimed that Christians would turn back the clock on science to the dark ages.
Yet it's evolution that has sent science down wrong turns. It's evolution that had doctors thinking it was ok to remove tonsils and tailbones and thinking that appendices had no function. It's evolution that claimed major portions of DNA were "junk DNA", had no function and were not worth researching.
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