Color me gobsmacked. According to a recent Gallup poll, 46% of Americansbelieve that man was put on this Earth fully made, by God, at some point within the last 10,000 years.
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46% – That’s nearly half. Half of the residents of the world’s only superpower, the world’s dominant economy, the land where the internet was invented, praise be to Al Gore, the land where even the poor have refrigerators and TVs, that is, those who live indoors, totally reject what they learned in 8th grade science class.
They can’t accept the idea that humans evolved from lower simian life forms, and I can’t even understand their psychological objection to that, because I watch the Chimps and the Gorillas at the zoo and think they’re pretty cool. What, would they rather we evolved from cows?
Nope, they reject the idea of evolution outright. They are not convinced by fossil evidence, or hierarchical charts, or the virtually unanimous voice of scientists and other people who are not, like them, religious whack jobs.
I feel there should have been follow questions, such as: Seriously? Did you actually understand the question? Literally? Really?
It probably wouldn’t have mattered. They are completely serious, they didn’t understand the question but they don’t understand that they don’t understand the question, that has to do with the Dunning-Krueger effect, they probably don’t all understand what the word literally means but they are being literal, they really believe that stuff.
It’s a frightening future we face, with festering regional conflicts dotting the globe like acne, ideological, religious, cultural and economic conflicts, not to mention the ultimate destruction of the biosphere. Of all of our problems, though, I think one of the most frightening is that 46% of the people in a supposedly, modern Western state really, seriously and literally belief in that whole Garden of Eden fairy tale.
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