40

Amen

Studies like this are always the saddest studies.  It highlights the gaps between the logic that we should ground our lives in and the fairy tales that incomprehensibly rule our brains, and our political and religious agenda.

Four in 10 Americans, slightly fewer today than in years past, believe God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.

That means that 4 in 10 Americans should have their brains lobotomized.  You aren’t allowed to believe in something if a mile long stack of scientific evidence backed up by thousands of experiments, peer reviews and rigorous research proves the contrary to your beliefs.  People (and still some do) once “believed” that the earth was flat.  That belief was valid until fact proved otherwise.  You’re not allowed to believe the the earth is flat anymore.  To do so warrants a charge of lunacy.  The same can be said about believing that the earth is 10,000 years old.

It’s sad really.  Thinking that humans are the God-driven purposeful big swinging dick of life on earth is the reason that we collectively mistreat the planet and all life on it, as if the earth is ours and to be used for our own desires, instead of realizing that we are one species in a long line of many  squatters fortunate enough to have a home to live on as we pass through.

40%? WTF.  That depresses me.

16% believe humans developed over millions of years, without God’s involvement.

Hang on tight 16%!  Logic and reason will win out and the world will be a better place for it.  Just keep educating people…and read Richard Dawkins.

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