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

To: LLCF who wrote (27637)	10/13/2009 8:02:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Scientific American is a wacko website? <<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: Right, so one of the interesting things is that all of these factors seemed to be correlated to some extent with accepting evolution.>> So ummmm guy.... doesn't that directly contradict what you interpreted it to mean... at least in your assertion to me? Something about highly educated? No, I didn't quote her commenting on education level ... I quoted her on understanding evolution. Not the same thing. Thanks for the REAL deal. It's always good to present the original source of information FWIW. I didn't realize the original source of information was a mystery. I believe I've mentioned before that the quote came from an interview in Scientific American. Finally your point: <<I find it interesting that Lombrozo says "..scientists, tend to think that if people reject evolution and in particular evolution by natural selection, it's because they don't understand it very well; they don't really understand what the theory is telling us." And that happens to be precisely the case with you. You think exactly as she said scientists typically do and apparently can't believe otherwise. >> I agree with that... and I find it a bit of a bummer (like Lambrozo) to think that people are like horses sometimes... you can lead 'em to knowledge but not make 'em learn. :) There's that learning vs accepting thing again. They aren't necessarily the same thing.