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To: Bill who wrote (647)	9/3/2011 10:51:07 AM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

The two go hand in hand. 99% of scientists believe in evolution because it is a simple fact, reproduced in labs around the world every day. Every major university in the world teaches evolution as fact. So most scientists are atheists. I am an atheist. Probably more that half of scientists are atheists, but it is still frowned upon to say one is an atheist so people will not say it. Too much social pressure. Can't run for office as an atheist. And before someone gives the classic retort: "I do not believe in god, I am not saying I know there is no god). I do believe cognition is a third system in the universe (got that idea from Alfred North Whitehead in college); and that life and intelligent life is pervasive in the universe. Over 50% of conservatives do not believe in evolution (which blows my mind). It is like not believeing the earth is round. The vast majority of liberals do believe in evolution. Why scientists are liberal. People are divided between those who live by fact and reason and those who live by myth and script. Scientists are trained in fact and reason. Darwin discovered how we got here and published it in 1859. Yet 99% of the people on earth today still do not seem to understand evolution or believe in it? So how do we survive if people cannot grasp something so simple? Of all the Republican presidential candidates only Huntsman (1%) believes in evolution. I feel if one cananot understand evolution they are not qualified to be president. It is not hard to understand. That is probably the statistic that makes me scratch my head the most. We know so much about evolution and specifically our evolution. Using DNA we even know approximately how and when we left Africa and that we are about 4% Neandertal. news.nationalgeographic.com en.wikipedia.org <<Even more interesting, I think, is that half of the scientists in that poll identified themselves as atheists.