RE: Extra! Extra!! Russians...
February 14, 2011 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2011 at 6:30 pm by Anomalocaris.)
How is believing the sun to be revolving around the earth any more stupid than believing the earth was created 6000 years ago?
No, it's not. More than one in three Americans believe the earth was created 6000 years ago.
The difference is in Russia, the population as a whole is at least adaquate to the task of letting mass media hold up prevelance of belief in things like geocentric cosmology and creationism as evidence of the society's inadaquate scientific literacy and need for improvement. But in the US, even this minimum level of adaquacy is not present and no mass media dare call out the creationists for the society disgracing ignoramus that they are.
(February 14, 2011 at 12:41 pm)OnlyNatural Wrote:(February 14, 2011 at 11:36 am)Minimalist Wrote: just as stupid as Americans!
Quote:MOSCOW, Feb. 11, 2011 (Reuters) — Does the sun revolve around the Earth? One in every three Russians thinks so, a spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday.
Wow that's almost stupider than Americans, how incredibly sad
No, it's not. More than one in three Americans believe the earth was created 6000 years ago.
The difference is in Russia, the population as a whole is at least adaquate to the task of letting mass media hold up prevelance of belief in things like geocentric cosmology and creationism as evidence of the society's inadaquate scientific literacy and need for improvement. But in the US, even this minimum level of adaquacy is not present and no mass media dare call out the creationists for the society disgracing ignoramus that they are.
