Maybe This Is Why Many Americans Are Creationists?

The Awoken One · 05-30-2008, 10:34 AM

Americans are NOT stupid - WITH SUBTITLES

05-30-2008, 01:24 PM

All Americans must be feeling pretty ashamed right now. That's an embarrassment to the human race.

Smellyoldgit · 05-30-2008, 01:43 PM

Brits are Brilliant

psychodiva · 05-30-2008, 02:52 PM

isn't there one with Aussies in it too

we are all as bad as each other- although I still claim a margin above the yanks

nkb · 05-30-2008, 02:55 PM

The moral of the story is, you can find retards in every country.

We just have more of them.

psychodiva · 05-30-2008, 02:57 PM

probably mostly living in Texas?

nkb · 05-30-2008, 03:02 PM

Oh, make no mistake, we have plenty of them here in Texas.

calpurnpiso · 05-30-2008, 04:35 PM

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nkb wrote

The moral of the story is, you can find retards in every country.

We just have more of them.

Of course with 82% of the people believing resurrected zombies that save with blood are real, how couldn't it be?

nkb · 05-30-2008, 06:23 PM

General ignorance has nothing to do with religiosity. As we all know, there are plenty of smart (but obviously deluded) theists, and plenty of stupid non-believers (we see them here sometimes).

Sternwallow · 05-31-2008, 05:39 AM

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nkb wrote

General ignorance has nothing to do with religiosity. As we all know, there are plenty of smart (but obviously deluded) theists, and plenty of stupid non-believers (we see them here sometimes).

Ah, but there is a high correlation between education (non-ignorance) and non-religiosity.

ILOVEJESUS · 05-31-2008, 06:15 AM

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nkb wrote

Oh, make no mistake, we have plenty of them here in Texas.

youd know lol

nkb · 05-31-2008, 02:24 PM

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Sternwallow wrote

Ah, but there is a high correlation between education (non-ignorance) and non-religiosity.

You're right, I shouldn't have said "has nothing to do with religiosity".

But, as everyone knows, you can be highly intelligent, but still deluded.

05-31-2008, 10:30 PM

Oh shiiit.

Mexico really needs to be repaired.

06-02-2008, 07:16 AM

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Sternwallow wrote

Ah, but there is a high correlation between education (non-ignorance) and non-religiosity.

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies[.] [...] The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developed democracies, sometimes spectacularly so, and almost always scores poorly. The view of the U.S. as a “shining city on the hill” to the rest of the world is falsified when it comes to basic measures of societal health. [...] No democracy is known to have combined strong religiosity and popular denial of evolution with high rates of societal health. Higher rates of non-theism and acceptance of human evolution usually correlate with lower rates of dysfunction, and the least theistic nations are usually the least dysfunctional.
("Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies" -- Paul. Journal of Religion and Society, Vol. 7. 2005)