{"id":1824,"date":"2009-12-02T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2009-12-02T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T21:49:05","slug":"darwinian-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/darwinian-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwinian Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The More They Know Darwin, The Less They Want Darwin-Only Indoctrination<\/a><\/p>\n

According to an international poll released by the British Council, the majority of Americans \u2014 60% \u2014 support teaching alternatives to evolution in the science classroom. The percentage is the same for Britons, despite the fact that both countries have been inundated with pro-Darwin media coverage in this super-mega Darwin Year.<\/p>\n

Of course, the British media reporting this are chagrined. Britain is the birthplace of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, and the official-sounding British Council, the UK group behind the \u201cDarwin Now\u201d campaign that commissioned the Ipsos MORI poll, have spent precious resources educating the world about Darwin. Now some believe the poll shows that efforts by Darwinist organizations aren’t working.<\/p>\n

Head of the British Council\u2019s Darwin Now program Fern Elsdon-Baker said, \u201cOverall these results may reflect the need for a more sophisticated approach to teaching and communicating how science works as a process.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The correlation appears again when we consider which countries have more knowledge of Darwin\u2019s theory. The highest numbers of those in support of alternative theories in the classroom correspond to the highest numbers of those familiar with Charles Darwin \u2014 60% in Britain, 65% in Mexico, 61% in China, 66% in Russia, and 60% in the U.S. It appears that the more people know about Darwin\u2019s theory, the more they want to see alternatives in science class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s interesting.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the majority of people haven’t evolved enough to accept their monkey’s uncle. Or maybe it’s the possibility that their monkey is their uncle that unhinges their support.<\/p>\n

Are we guilty of being unwilling to engage in a willing suspension of disbelief? Perhaps.<\/p>\n

Now we await a similar nuclear winter<\/span> global warming<\/span> climate change poll. (Or did that already happen and I’ve forgotten?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The More They Know Darwin, The Less They Want Darwin-Only Indoctrination According to an international poll released by the British Council, the majority of Americans \u2014 60% \u2014 support teaching alternatives to evolution in the science classroom. The percentage is the same for Britons, despite the fact that both countries have been inundated with pro-Darwin … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,463],"tags":[709,871,632],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suspension-of-disbelief","category-thisandthat","tag-education","tag-evolution","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}