Survey: When science and faith collide, faith usually wins

[MindMover]

WASHINGTON — Believers don’t buy the Big Bang, God-less evolution or a human responsibility for global warming. Actually, neither do many Americans.

But a new survey by The Associated Press found that religious identity – particularly evangelical Protestant – was one of the sharpest indicators of skepticism toward key issues in science.

The survey presented a series of statements that several prize-winning scientist say are facts. However, the research shows that confidence in their correctness varies sharply among U.S. adults. It found:

– 51 percent of U.S. adults overall (including 77 percent of people who say they are born-again or evangelical) have little or no confidence that “the universe began 13.8 billion years ago with a big bang.”


http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/02/3423006/survey-when-science-and-faith.html?sp=/99/132/

[mike_c]

1. willfull ignorance is the worst kind....

Sheesh.

[Xipe Totec]

2. If by wining they mean remain obstinately stupid, then yes. nt

[Half-Century Man]

3. Every time some dipshit yells USA #1!

I just want to slap em...

[Archae]

4. Science is hard.

Believing in magic is easy.

[uriel1972]

5. I think that these people...

are living in an 'echo chamber' all their lives. What they hear from cradle to grave is the religious point of view, so in effect this point of view becomes their common sense 'facts'.

Anything outside that view is inlikely to be believed. Science and the scientific method don't get a look in.