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Matthew Yglesias
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Evolution is sneaking up
November 29, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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Still disturbing that, in 2024, over a third of the country rejects one of the most scientifically-sound facts about the world.
For evangelicals it's probably 95%+. Back when I was an evangelical I was the weird crazy liberal for believing in evolution.
This can’t possibly be true. Everyday we find out more about how ignorant our fellow Americans truly are. That’s the tragedy
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I take no pleasure in telling you this🫳
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*Sixth grade
21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022
54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level
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37% of Americans take the Genesis book from the bible literally. Really? REALLY??
Still nowhere near the point where I thought that would be -- my prior was of 70+%
I must indeed live in an echo chamber
More than a third of Americans don't believe in evolution at all? I guess I kinda knew that but that's still pretty wild.
The evolution of the idea of Evolution is slowly out-competing its less evolved neighboring ideas. 😂
What’s ironic is that we ALL saw evolution happen right before our eyes: Covid, delta, omicron, BA.2, etc.
Evolution killed 10M+ people while 8B people watched this giant experiment.
Believe yet?
It needs to sneak up a damn lot quicker tbh... But with the education system in America I won't hold my breath....
Ignorance and superstition still rule the day. Very disappointing.
And we wonder why the public is so easily conned by psychopath politicians and Oligarchs?
I think that the reason religious beliefs are still so high is because a lot of religious institutions offer community outside of work and home.
If we want religion to play an ever increasing role in people's beliefs, we need to create these community structures and get people in them.
Ever decreasing, nobody says this and it messes with my head lol.
Suddenly Trump’s win makes more sense. I grew up in an evangelical church and was in that world and even I didn’t think it would be that low for evolution.
81% of christian evangelicals voted for Trump.
64% of the electorate were christians.
61% voted for Trump.
So if you're wondering how Trump got elected , thank your local christians.
For all the talk of Christian Nationalism you don’t hear much about creationism these days
They are the *same people*: paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/k...
Well yeah but they’re not really talking about it anymore as far as I can tell
At one point when evolution was a hot button topic, I believed that belief in evolution was undercounted as people signaled their allegiance to religion when asked by pollsters. But after years of evolution being out of the cultural spotlight it seems most people are just skeptical.
Ur a psychopath but that chart is also psychopathic. The fact that we have ADULTS, being so terrified of their own mortality, suggesting god exists is complete and total COPE. It sucks, i get it, but we're on our own yall. Wish it were different, theres just bo evidence to support that fantasy
there we have the real number of religious/irreligious people in the US btw
Evolution also implies our sense of right and wrong developed without God, questioning the notion of an objective morality grounded in God. It really does a number on religious worldviews.
My guess is it will tend toward 50% evo, 10% god, 40% god + evo
You would have thought that the whole world stopped because of a virus, and then that virus evolving multiple times to be more dangerous and then finally less dangerous, would have had a big effect on people.
I suppose lots of people didn't even follow the names of the different variants.
71 percent still buy into some form of Devine intervention. Hard to believe it was worse, but it was.
And in other encouraging developments from the science community:
"Shocking poll shows growing acceptance that Earth revolves around Sun - up 3% since Copernicus first suggested it in 1543."
I'd like to think we're not doomed, but sometimes it's difficult!
It should be obvious to even the most cretinous American that they did not arrive from any kind of divine act. We are monkeys that rose, not angels that fell.
No actually educated people worldwide have believed the myths of the Bible as other than they are, myths. Except in the US.
We can't even talk people out of 2000 year old conspiracy theories.
Just wait until the backlash—Fox News starts talking about leftist evolution indoctrination, Trump picks it up, red states start passing “teach the controversy” legislation, …
Progress is progress but just a staggering number of people believe obvious nonsense. Believe in god? Fine. Unfalsifiable at least. Believe evolution is fake though?!
Way too many people sleepwalk through life never thinking about anything.
I wonder if the 37% are aware that they implicitly reject the entire scientific field of biology(and a bunch of others)
Still remember my (public) high school calculus teacher talking to us about how the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
Still 37% science deniers out there. But yeah, the direction is good.
How does one answer that if one has, say, a process theology or religious humanist definition of "God"? It seems to a assume a traditional theological definition.
