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Those times you beat yourself up from facepalming too much.

  • 04-06-2010 3:38am
    #1
    amacachi
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    Just watching Penn and Teller Bull**** about Creationism and all that jazz, and I just couldn't believe that the number of people they had on it who believed the Earth was created in 6 days and that we're all here but a few thousand years were around in the world, let alone just in the US. I decided to have a little look around online and came across this graph. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Views_on_Evolution.svg

    I think of myself as pretty tolerant, and if a kid asked a science teacher if there was a God involved in evolution/the creation of the universe for the answer to be "we don't know". I don't mind people being religious if it helps them get from one day to the next or if they carry out true missionary work, but as many Americans don't believe in evolution as those who do. I mean come on! On the programme they had one guy who reckons the Grand Canyon was formed over a couple of days as a result of the release of water following a flood, presumably around Noah's time. This is his idea of Science. I must have slapped my forehead at least 10 times in the less than half an hour the show was on, so strong was the frustration that I had a peanut M&M in my hand one of the times but was still overwhelmed by the desire to hit myself, presumably somewhere buried in my subconscious I'm trying to give myself brain damage to get to these people's level.

    Ugh.


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  • #2
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Thats how they get you. You keep hitting yourself in the head until you get brain damage and then become one of them.


  • #3
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    amacachi wrote: »
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Views_on_Evolution.svg

    Ah, the United States of America. Undeniably #1 in the world when it comes to military power, political influence and financial oomph. Take a look at education, however, and they slip in just between Turkey and Bulgaria. Reminds me of when you take a look at their health care, they slip in right between Costa Rica and Slovenia.


  • #4
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    P&T is the greatest show ever.


  • #5
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    P&T is the greatest show ever.

    BS? Nah, bit too blinkered tbh.


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