Google Search Trends Show Danes, Australians, Canada Interested in Intelligent Design

Google Search ID Trend History ^ | 06/16/2006

[SirLinksalot]

Just out of curiosity, I did a little research about Google trends to see which countries other than the USA are interested in the issue of Intelligent Design vs. Evolution.

SEE THE RESULT HERE :

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Intelligent+Design&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Now, Click on the “regions” tab.

What is interesting is... it shows that our good ally in the War on Terror, Australia has about half the searches for Intelligent Design that we do.

But please note that Australia’s population is about 20 million. The USA on the other hand has about 280 million people.

This shows that Australia's INTEREST for ID is about 6 times more per person than the USA.

And note Denmark has only 5 million people. This means that the Danes are 20 times more interested in ID than Americans.

Interest on ID is more and more growing in Europe even in presence of a growing secularist tide.

The top 10 countries where ID is being searched for are :

USA AUSTRALIA DENMARK CANADA NETHERLANDS SWEDEN UK INDIA BELGIUM GERMANY

In the USA, the top 10 cities that are interested in ID are :

1. PHILADELPHIA

2. Washington, DC USA

3. St Louis, MO USA

4. Seattle, WA USA

5. Portland, OR USA

6. Denver, CO USA

7. Austin, TX USA

8. Minneapolis, MN USA

9. San Francisco, CA USA

10. Chicago, IL USA

[PatrickHenry]

Poor Pierre ... all those bridges ...

[VadeRetro]

Of course, like all creationists, he is unable to ever admit to a mistake (even in arithmetic) and thus continues to burrow into mathematical inanity.

As one of the Panda's Thumbers noted, he HAS posted two longish posts since then and pushed the Google-gaffe far down the page. Maybe he's just going to ignore it away.

[PatrickHenry]

Maybe he's just going to ignore it away.

Yes, but what about the pathetic plagiarism of that blunder on this thread? Will that get ignored away too?

[Old Professer]

I'd settle for half-way smart, myself.

[VadeRetro]

Absolutely, yes.

[Wiz]

Never trust the Communist Google.

[VadeRetro]

One day later and this thread isn't on any one of at least three creo pinglists. They aren't spreading the good news!?

[PatrickHenry]

One of the problems with plagiarism is that the only people tempted to do it are stupid people trying to appear to be intelligent; and stupid people are often too stupid to know that the stuff they're plagiarizing is stupid stuff.

Well, it's not a total loss. To his fellow fools, a plagiarist may indeed appear to be intelligent, because how is a fool to know the difference? However to the people a plagiarist is attempting to impress, plagiarism is a complete failure; because by committing the act of plagiarism, the plagiarist has added to his catalog of defects -- now he can be scorned for bad character, which is infinitely worse than mere stupidity.

[VadeRetro]

But you can always claim there's NO PROOF you didn't just happen to write the same words yourself.

[PatrickHenry]

But ... think of the odds! Why, it's likelier that a tornado in a junkyard would produce a 747 than that two monkeys would both type the same nonsense. By this iron logic, which is so often seen around here, I'd have to go with the plagiarism theory.

[PatrickHenry]

Plagiarism bump

[Doctor Stochastic]

Is the moral to plagiarize from better mathematicians? Perhaps from Minsk?

[Gumlegs]

But ... think of the odds! Why, it's likelier that a tornado in a junkyard would produce a 747 than that two monkeys would both type the same nonsense. By this iron logic, which is so often seen around here, I'd have to go with the plagiarism theory.

Please. It's only a theory!

[Gumlegs]

Is the moral to plagiarize from better mathematicians? Perhaps from Minsk?

Always, please, remember to call it "research." (I got this from my friend in Pinsk).

[Doctor Stochastic]

J. Frank Dobie once mentioned that if one steals from a single source, it's plagiarism; if one steals from twelve, it's research.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Quietly Flows the Don to the Western Front.

[Doctor Stochastic]

A Russian itinerant, who needed to travel from Minsk to Pinsk, caught a ride with a wagon driver whose cart was drawn by a rather ancienthorse. As they approached the first significant hill on the Minsk-Pinsk highway, the driver halted the cart, unhitched the horse, and asked the passenger to assist him in pushing the wagon to the top ofthe hill. At the top, he hitched up the horse again, and they proceeded on their way until the nextsmall elevation, where they again repeated the previous procedure.After the fifth such ritual, the now-exhausted passenger dropped to his knees at the side of the road and looked quizzically at the driver. “I know why I have to get to Pinsk. I suspect you have a reason for going there as well. Enlighten me please. Why are we bringing the horse?”

[starbase]

Here's an interesting piece on the state of plagiarism in the US today from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

[Gumlegs]

The mathematician that others all quote,
Whos the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.

One man deserves the credit,
One man deserves the blame,
And nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name.
Hi!
Nicolai ivanovich lobach-

I am never forget the day I first meet the great lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:
Plagiarize!

Plagiarize,
Let no one elses work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good lord made your eyes,
So dont shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please research.

And ever since I meet this man
My life is not the same,
And nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name.
Hi!
Nicolai ivanovich lobach-

I am never forget the day I am given first original paper
To write. it was on analytic and algebraic topology of
Locally euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable
Riemannian manifold.
Bozhe moi!
This I know from nothing.
But I think of great lobachevsky and get idea - ahah!

I have a friend in minsk,
Who has a friend in pinsk,
Whose friend in omsk
Has friend in tomsk
With friend in akmolinsk.
His friend in alexandrovsk
Has friend in petropavlovsk,
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in dnepropetrovsk.

And when his work is done -
Ha ha! - begins the fun.
From dnepropetrovsk
To petropavlovsk,
By way of iliysk,
And novorossiysk,
To alexandrovsk to akmolinsk
To tomsk to omsk
To pinsk to minsk
To me the news will run,
Yes, to me the news will run!

And then I write
By morning, night,
And afternoon,
And pretty soon
My name in dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
When he finds out I publish first!

And who made me a big success
And brought me wealth and fame?
Nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name.
Hi!
Nicolai ivanovich lobach -

I am never forget the day my first book is published.
Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
Index I copy from old vladivostok telephone directory.
This book was sensational!
Pravda - well, pravda - pravda said: (russian double-talk)
It stinks.
But izvestia! izvestia said: (russian double-talk)
It stinks.
Metro-goldwyn-moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles,
Changing title to the eternal triangle,
With brigitte bardot playing part of hypotenuse.

And who deserves the credit?
And who deserves the blame?
Nicolai ivanovich lobachevsky is his name.
Hi!

- Tom Lehrer.

[VadeRetro]

Why, it's likelier that a tornado in a junkyard would produce a 747 than that two monkeys would both type the same nonsense.

You have no proof, only evidence. I have the same evidence, but not your plagiarism-ist assumptions! Down with Plagiarism-ism!