Considering that americans are usually not stupider, how do you explain the number of creationists in the US?

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupider

pfff...

Frances, humans _ARE_ animals just like apes, and we didn't evolved from them, but from a common ancestor...

It's simply sad to get answers as yours.

Jen, although the number of falacies in your text is greater than the number of arguments, you are right about my english, and I'd love to hear your suggestions on how to improve it.

About your question, matter was created from energy on the big bang. Perhaps you should remember the E=mc^2 formula from your high-school classes. About how the Energy appeared, we don't have any reasonable theory, yet.

Answer 1

I am a believer in creation by The Creator and am not considered stupid at all. Indeed, I would think that anyone who thought that all the complexities of nature and the human body were made by a "Big Boom" could be considered stupid. Evolution cannot even remotely explain these things, evolution cannot design anything. If man is evolved from apes (or take your choice of animals), why do we still have apes, why aren't they all humans?

Answer 2

Creationism is a matter of faith more than intellect. Confusing faith with stupidity is, well, not very bright, frankly speaking.

There are some remarkably intelligent arguments that can be marshalled to defend some tenents of so-called "Intelligent Design". The intense hatred of "intelligent Design" philosophy strikes me as more political commentary than cold hard logic.

Answer 3

Right on Tigerzntalons. You have my vote.

While creationism is not scientific, it is not necessarily wrong, either. The general outline presented in Genesis runs parallel with the Big Bang theory and Evolution (not perfectly, but close). And let's not quibble about time periods. Genesis can have its 7 days and science can have its billions of years. After all, science already considers time and space in relative terms.

Answer 4

Wow! Where are you from? Stupider?! Brilliant!

Just because stupider is in a dictionary means nothing. There are a lot of words in the dictionary because of many illiterate people, like you, continue to use it. Pretty soon the following will be acceptable:

Person 1: Hey, Joe! Did you get your disks.
Person 2: Yeah! I got me mines.

Answer 5

Wow, your vocabulary astounds me.
I hope to be as intelligent as you one day...

You believe in one man's theory that we somehow evolved from a puddle? And then you dare to insult the intelligence level of millions of people worldwide who believe in something with credibility?

P.S. I have a suggestion to improve your English : shut the hell up.

Answer 6

Americans are "smart" because the smart people-genies from other countries(especially from Europe) usually emigrate in U.S.because they can have better job offers,better salaries, a better life there.

Answer 7

This question is loaded. Let's start with the Middle Ages or, if you prefer, an even earlier global scene. How many people were educated? How many could be, given what was known during a given age about world history? The world was much "smaller" by today's standards--and MUCH less educated.

In life, there are problems we can't solve, events we don't understand, wrongs we can't right, things we can't fix, things we can't control, things we can't conquer (such as our own mortality), things we can't know. To modern day mankind, as well as primitive society these realities were terrifying, depressing, devastating, overwhelmingly despairing. We NEEDED to make sense of the nonsensical. We NEEDED to believe that somewhere somehow someplace there was some being that could understand, could solve the unsolvable, right the unrightable, fix the unfixable, conquer the unconquerable, know the unknowable. This "Impossible Dream,” brought about by an insanity born delusion, brings us solace.

Throughout history, the gods of mankind have taken many forms. Religions have been born and died only now to be known by fossil records and artifacts. Today, as the world grows smaller and the knowledge of mankind increases, the god(s) have taken on a familiar form. Thus, at least in my belief, MAN has made God in HIS image.

Also there is the problem of propaganda and the power of these needs/ desires. I doubt it took long for rulers of past to realize how easy it would be to manipulate people with the idea of some unseen sentinel that would punish them for their wrong deeds. Politicians, leaders, kings, priests and priestesses, chiefs, etc. . .
could easily use superstition to create such images in the minds of the ignorant uneducated masses and through these images dictate behaviors according to whatever served their purposes: If you blaspheme, you'll be hung by your tongue in torment for all eternity, for example.

Let me give you a stark example of such control. The Inquisition. During this time, you were either born into power or acquired it through the Church. Because of this, there were many unpious men who entered the priesthood in search, not of the salvation of the masses; but of power. Power whose abuse history still has not forgotten.

Next there is the unavoidable problem of programming. EVERYONE, whether you like it or not, has been programmed. Programmed by the leaders of their countries, by their role models, mentors and parents, to believe as THEY believe, to believe as THEY were taught to believe, as their predecessors were taught by the leaders and chieftains of past. You believe what you have been taught from the day you were born. People in Israel believe in the god of the Torah. People of Iraqi descent in the Quran and Mohammed, People of Japan in Shintoism, People in Tibet in Buddha, People in India in Hinduism, People in Rome and countries historically of past Roman occupation, in Christianity. There are animalists in the world and a multitude of strange religions throughtout history. And all these people BELIEVE/ believed to the point that in their minds their religion was an ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Such programming, so ingrained from infancy by mantric prayer, is more likely to breed defensiveness or offensiveness if rebutted, even by logic and reason, than epiphany. So, powerful is such programming that some people cannibalize, the Mayans believed in the human sacrifices, and in some cultures parents will give their dear children to atrocities in the name of their beliefs.

You ask about America. America is of British descent, a former Roman territory. Thus, American programming is of a Christian nature. Few minds are strong enough to brave hell, damnation, or wrath by questioning their own programming.

Answer 8

The answer to that is simple:
People let religion inter fear with rational thinking.

Answer 9

Shooting groups of people down for their belief systems, and then comparing it to inteligence sounds pretty stupid to me.

Answer 10

how do you explain the number of atheists in the US, if americans are smart?