I liked your question so much, I had to answer it twice: 🙂

Unfortunately, many people get their understanding of evolution from religious “authorities” who oppose the theory on personal, not empirical grounds. I live in a city where the largest private college in the state (Liberty University, VA) teaches that dinosaur bones are only 3,000 years old.

If you have a group of people resistant to change their opinions because they have been taught that personal beliefs should trump evidence, it is hard to educate them because it requires an alteration to their world view, including an embrace of the scientific method. Another problem is that they equate evolution to atheism, so instead of analyzing the value in science, they view science itself as in opposition to their religious beliefs, and never learn enough to question their assumptions.

I support better education and more public outcry against the religious fanaticism that seems be engendering support with both political parties in the United States. Neither Republicans nor Democrats should play the “faith” card or turn creationism and other misled ideas into political platforms. When a large university can teach that the universe is 6,000 years old in the twenty-first century, we’ve regressed to the dark ages. When 40% of the American public gives into these mishaps, we have a scientifically illiterate society.

It’s not about education. It’s about people’s personal beliefs. You can’t force someone to believe something. And religion has been around a lot longer than the theory of evolution.

Why do you think it’s an embarrassment? Just because people don’t agree with you doesn’t mean they are dumb. I don’t think any less of you because you believe in evolution. I respect people, no matter what their beliefs are.

i think the poll you gave PROVES that maximum persons don’t think the unhappy lies of a guy who recanted his very own concept on his dying mattress!! It takes extra faith to have faith that we got here from monkeys than it does to have faith in clever layout my chum. Do you additionally be attentive to the thought your self? in accordance on your poll, the extra guidance and much less faith, the dumber a guy or woman turns into. seventy 4% of positioned up Graduates and seventy one% of seldom church attenders have faith here: it began with a single celled amoeba This amoeba cut as much as grow to be a many celled entity, It shaped right into a fish, that shaped right into a reptile, that crawled out of the sea, that grew to become right into a mammal, then grew to become right into a human….. incredibly? A species that metamorphed right into a various species 5 circumstances over??? From an amoeba to a fish to a reptile to a mammal (ape) to a human??? And gee, our college structures are failing by way of fact our bright young little ones at the instant are not buying this??? No, our little ones interior the faculties structures are lots smarter than the positioned up grads you point out. This concept might make for a large power Rangers episode, yet even scientifically, it incredibly is truthfully not achievable. never interior the background of the international has ANY species, be it germs, folage, reptile, fish, mammal or human has ever replaced right into a various species…. CSI ought to not even discover the data to lower back up this evolutionists concept….(and that they never close) so as that could make the fifty 9% of center and extreme schoolers incredible as properly as seventy six% of normal attenders of Church, that Darwins concept is a lie. in simple terms like the business states, “human beings are smarter than you think of.” particularly young little ones and ordinary church attenders. Please discover me an occasion, everywhere, with a species transforming into yet another species….the place is the fossil? as quickly as you arise with concrete evidence, in step with possibility we can communicate.