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Re: [Phys-L] Conservapedia (was HD 140283)

Not "cherry-picking" anything... most of the fundamentalists believe in the 6000 years. You should have mentioned that because the 6000 year old universe is far more prevalent than the 10,000 year old human creation.
These illiterate people believe whatever their preachers and haridi Rabbis say. And many teenagers I work with have the educationof my 4 yar old granddaughter. (Well, maybe the equivalent of a 10 year old.) If the survey had said "Were humans created 1000,000 years ago" they probably would have said yes. This country is so anti-education and there are so many of these fundamentalists running around and voting it is downright scary for our future. They are confronting this in Israel and it is becoming a critical problem there.


On Jun 7, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Richard Tarara wrote:

Considering the innumeracy of the general population and the difficulty most people have in understanding a 10,000 year time span--much less a 100,000 or million or billion, then from that viewpoint, 10,000 rather than 100,000 years is not, IMO, ridiculously wrong. A 6000 year life of the Universe (since the earth was created at the same time!) IS ridiculous. But of course, that was NOT the point of my post--but then 'cherry picking' each others posts in par for the course.

rwt

On 6/6/2013 11:04 PM, Marty Weiss wrote:
Just saw the line in Richard's post of 10,000 years, "not ridiculously wrong." If you consider a 90% error not ridiculously wrong then what do you consider wrong? Our species, Homo Sapiens dates from 1000,000 to 160,000 years ago.

On Jun 6, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Richard Tarara wrote:

OK--here's the scientific lesson in all of this--HOW TO CHERRY-PICK THE DATA.

The survey has 46% of all Americans believing in the 10,000 year human creation with 41% of Democrats and 39% of Independents along with the 58% of Republicans (no mention of 'conservative'.) If you want to define humans as homo-sapiens that time line is wrong, but not ridiculously wrong. It is still a sad commentary especially the postgraduate and college graduate figures, but JCs post is a distorted (biased?) view of the very article referenced.

rwt