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Simply Fucking Sad.....
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#11
RE: Simply Fucking Sad.....
February 14, 2014 at 9:19 pm
It's not only science.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/opinion/ca...s-history/

Quote:Only one in three fourth-graders could identify the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. Less than half understood why George Washington was an important American leader. And a majority of fourth-graders didn't know why the Pilgrims left England.
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February 14, 2014 at 9:20 pm
I am hoping----HOPING----that this at least partly represents poor reading comprehension and not that people actually believe the solar system is not heliocentric. Also, where was this poll done? And who is the sample? Those numbers hurt me in my insides.

Maybe they polled 2,200 third graders in West Virginia?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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#13
RE: Simply Fucking Sad.....
February 14, 2014 at 9:23 pm
(February 14, 2014 at 9:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's not only science.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/opinion/ca...s-history/

Quote:Only one in three fourth-graders could identify the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. Less than half understood why George Washington was an important American leader. And a majority of fourth-graders didn't know why the Pilgrims left England.

Referencing the picture leading the article...

I'll bet even 9 of 10 Christian nation louses don't know which night Washington crossed the Deleware.
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RE: Simply Fucking Sad.....
February 14, 2014 at 9:25 pm (This post was last modified: February 14, 2014 at 10:03 pm by Minimalist.)
It's the National Science Foundation. They would have been run out of West Virginia by an angry mob of stupid xtians whipped into a jesus-loving frenzy by some crooked preachers.
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February 14, 2014 at 9:38 pm
(February 14, 2014 at 8:56 pm)Tonus Wrote: It is very likely that the people getting that question wrong were not home-schooled. Some of the school districts in this country are shockingly bad.
In fact, homeschoolers are often more academically competent than their publicly schooled counterparts. That's why homeschoolers always win the national spelling bee. Wink Shades
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February 14, 2014 at 9:39 pm
(February 14, 2014 at 9:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's the National Science Foundation. They would have been run out of West Virginia by an angry mob of stupid xtians whipped into a jesus-loving friendly by some crooked preachers.

Irony!!!
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February 14, 2014 at 10:08 pm (This post was last modified: February 14, 2014 at 10:12 pm by KUSA.)
All of you have it wrong! The earth is flat and the sun goes around in little circles hovering just over the earth.[Image: 5u3ane3e.jpg]

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk133...dNight.gif

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
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#18
RE: Simply Fucking Sad.....
February 14, 2014 at 10:17 pm
(February 14, 2014 at 9:39 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(February 14, 2014 at 9:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's the National Science Foundation. They would have been run out of West Virginia by an angry mob of stupid xtians whipped into a jesus-loving friendly by some crooked preachers.

Irony!!!

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February 14, 2014 at 11:09 pm
I feel this study needs to be more accurate. It should be completed in a state by state basis, and correlate it with the religious population/literacy rate.
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#20
RE: Simply Fucking Sad.....
February 14, 2014 at 11:19 pm
Maybe 1/4 of the respondents recognized that which orbits which strictly depends on whether the reference frame used is fixed to the earth or the sun.

Maybe?

Nah, they're just ignorant.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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