God damnit.

[Reincarnate]

[Zageron]

Re: God damnit.

Oh god. "Personally, I don't believe in Evolution."
I stopped watching there.

[Reincarnate]

Re: God damnit.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry

[Reach]

Re: God damnit.

A dog show for girls.

What do you expect? Anyone with any biology education at the higher level, or any academic self respect at all knows that within the scientific community, evolution is considered fact. To not teach it in the classroom is a tragedy and completely debauches the education of our youth. Obviously many of these women are not the brightest or most educated minds, but props to those ladies that defend the facts.

Many of these answers are communicated so poorly though. My word. If I was this ineffective and illogical in communicating ideas in an interview situation I would never have gotten into professional school.

Many of them are considering both sides. However, anyone that has seriously considered the issue also knows that creationism is not biology and is not science, and should therefore never, under any circumstances, be taught in a biology or science class. If it deserves a mention at all, it's a scientific dismantling of the idea and showing why it holds no weight at all when discussing the scientific method.

It should really be saved for philosophical consideration at most. People can believe what they want, but that idea is completely independent of what we should be teaching kids in school.

[Reincarnate]

Re: God damnit.

What upsets me is that crap like this is so widespread -- it just bogs down our overall scientific literacy, and to me that's doing our world a great disservice. Hell, I was never taught evolution in my HS bio class, and I know several others who never learned about evolution in their classes either.

Stuff like this just makes me cringe. The notion that the average person doesn't find evolution to be fact in the same way that gravity is a fact or the heliocentric model is a fact is just... gahhhh.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Re: God damnit.

Wow are you late XD

[Reincarnate]

Re: God damnit.

Best answer given by Lauren Carter of Vermont at 13:00 -- the only good answer given (it's not a super-complete answer but it's the best out of all of them).

Midnight: No, just beaten down. I feel like it's a problem that isn't getting better.

[Sephiroth28]

Re: God damnit.

"We are smarter than ever these days" says a woman in a group who know absolutely nothing about what they are talking about.

"I think we should leave it up to the government because people might have a problem with it". Yeah and leaving it up to the government will change people's minds?

I also love the amount of ridiculous hand movements that they use.

[zolaric]

Re: God damnit.

lolllll

[FN_Boski]

Re: God damnit.

They should just stick to the standard answer: World Peace
>_>
<_<

[PlayTrumpet]

Re: God damnit.

Woot, Vermont! So chill.

I was hoping at least one of them would say something along the lines of "Obviously. The fact that so many of these other idiot bitches don't realize how significant and important evolution is just shows you how much our current education system is lacking. Hopefully this generation of kids won't be as stupid."

I guess that might've put them out of the running.. Though I doubt any of them really hold this belief.

[cry4eternity]

Re: God damnit.

As far as I'm aware, this "issue" is much less prevalent in most other areas of the world. For some reason, the US appears to be an outlying data point in many correlations between things like GDP and development index and religiosity and acceptance of evolution. Americans are stubborn and stupid.

Belief in Evolution (National Geographic, 2005):


Education of Evolution (scienceagainstevolution.org, 2002):

[Mans0n]

Re: God damnit.

The second law of thermodynamics proves that organization cannot flow from chaos. Complex live organisms cannot rearrange themselves into an organism of a higher form as claimed by evolutionists. This is scientifically backwards according to the second law of thermodynamics that has never been proven wrong. Scientists cannot have it both ways. The second law of thermodynamics is proven to be correct. Evolution lacks any scientific proof. Evolution is simply an empty theory.
Nuff said

[zolaric]

Re: God damnit.

lolllll

[ffraxis]

Re: God damnit.

Why is this in critical thinking?