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To: koan who wrote (27595)	10/11/2009 5:51:09 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 28931

You saying evolutionist and psychologist Tania Lombrozo is full of nonsense? scientificamerican.com "..in fact, if you look at the data from psychology and education, what you find is either no correlation between accepting evolution and understanding it or very, very small correlation between those two factors .."

To: koan who wrote (27595)	10/11/2009 9:06:42 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

You might want to read it... it probably doesn't show what he thinks it shows. First of all of course there is absolutely NO explanation of who was interviewed and what the questions were... further it appears the guy was interviewing those that DONT believe in evolution to find out 'what the problem is'... Doesn't imply you don't keep teaching the truth for those with open minds... more like don't expect the Muslim fundamentalist to stop blowing up busloads of children just because you educate him. 1.) Here's one of the findings: "" Steve: You had data that broke down people by, sort of, religious background, educational background, economic background; and some of the surprising things there were, for example, somebody might be a fundamentalist Christian but categorize himself as a liberal and have a high education—let's say graduate school—and on average, their acceptance of evolution will be much higher than somebody who is not religious but is low income and only has a high school degree."" ""Lombrozo: It definitely does correlate with certain religious beliefs. So, for example, studies pretty reliably find a correlation between how religious someone is and whether or not they accept or reject evolution;"" "Steve: And again we are not talking in any way right now about what is really known about evolution. We are, you know, as a science, we are just talking about people's ideas about evolution and their acceptance of whatever it is they think evolution is."" 2.) As has been pointed out to him Scientific American doesn't publish Science... further he railed on the publication when it discusses atheism or things by atheists... pretty funny. DAK