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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (27610)	10/12/2009 3:44:38 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<Well, I do have UC Berkeley psychologist Tania Lombrozo who apparently performed studies that among other things found that acceptance of evolution had little correlation with understanding it.> Among WHO? It appears to be among highly religious people from the comments in that interview... but they don't say. You said "ordinary people"... did you make that up or is that the population used for the study? What makes you think my (hypothetical) assertion that those interviewed were religious fundamentalists... THEN among them, there was little correlation with understanding it doesnt make more sense than your assertion? I mean use your head... clearly those who understand it best beleive it... they STUDY IT! LOL DAK

To: Brumar89 who wrote (27610)	10/12/2009 9:56:41 PM
From: one_less	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

My observation has been that nearly every educated adult in the USA has a basic understanding of the principles and operations of evolution, since it is taught at various levels through the K-12 curriculum. Recent research has found that higher involvement in religion impacts family socialization and the consequences include higher academic achievement for children. spi.sagepub.com This would suggest that people with a religious upbringing as a whole are likely to have a better than average grasp of science as taught in the k-12 curriculum. This has also been my observation of students at the high school level in general. Where as the usual complaint by those criticising religious people is that the religious people are not well educated and especially are not informed about evolution, the reverse is more commonly true. Educated religious people are knowledgeable about the fundamental principles of science including evolution ... but very often their critics have little or no knowledge of religious principles and in general have not achieved as well in public school. The little religious critics do know about religion has often been filtered and delivered to them via extremely bigoted sources. Scholarly atheists are hard to find but they usually take the time to study the foundations of religion; some start out biased and build a case, while others may have become disheartened by their own experiences. Bottom line is that most anti religion critics are not educated about religion (scholarly atheists being the exception), they make the false assumption that religious people are not educated about evolution and draw an unfounded and ironic conclusion that religious people are ignorant with poorly supported view points.