A nation of superstitious science neo-Luddites
I’m simply not sure how else to frame this terrifying survey of almost 2,500 Americans, which determined that … well, go read the article, and then come back. Done? Right.
How can we possibly be labeled a modern nation when more people believe in all-powerful sky spirits than believe in natural selection, which has been demonstrated literally hundreds of thousands of times to be factual? How can we take seriously people who think that witches, ghosts and other fantasies are real? How can we progress as a nation when we live under a collective delusion of reality that contravenes all available evidence?
What does it mean to have 58% of the country deny the veracity of a principle that is the foundation of all biological research, progress, and a vast swath of medical research of the past century? I say we take away their vaccines, their antibiotics, and find out how long their sky spirit protects them.
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Agreed, but then again, I get confused by a lot of business writings of late that state that decision-making in a large percentage of cases are made with the ignorance of facts. I get further muddled when I read that a significant percentage of scholarly research has problems with sloppiness, less-than-rigorous methodologies, etc.
Still confused. Probably will be for the rest of my days….:)
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However, be carefull, this might as well produce a branch of humanity resistant to both modern ideas and some viruses.
That would for sure be interpreted as a proof of superiority of spirits over science!