30% of students believe in Creationism/Intelligent Design - according to the Guardian.?

Question

Is this the beginning of the Age of Aquarius as promised by the hippie movement in the sixties? Or, is it the fault of political correctness - as intimated by the article - that we now have a generation of superstitious intellectuals?

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1844478,00.html

Answer 1

No I do not believe in the news according to Guardian.It is not the beginning of the age of Aquarius.I do not believe on birth's fortune or horroscope telling.Our generation now is not a superstitious intellectuals..All state laws and regulations should be based on brain,heart and strong faith to our God Almighty. Our government
officials can not base their acts on superstitious intellectuals
.They should hear the peoples' needs and wants.They should think it rightly by considering the benefit and the impact of the people.They should make a decision by discussing it well by deliberation by involving others to share opinion,no decided it by himself alone..The togetherness will make them more strong. and maintain its justice.

Answer 2

It might just be worth pointing out that "Creationism" and "Intelligent Design" are NOT the same thing, despite what the creationists (and the evolutionists!) would say.

Creationism: A BELIEF that the Earth and all living things upon it were created by God in seven days (alright, six days, He rested on the seventh). Mankind created in God's image, etc. etc. A literal interpretation of the Bible, abeit adapted by many with a less "literal" interpretation.

Intelligent Design: A THEORY suggesting that the huge complexity of life and living organisms are just too great to have originated by process of random evolution alone. The complexities of things like eyes, organs, brains, etc, etc, not to mention the awesome complexity of ecosystems and our planet as a whole. It implies something greater at work than our human comprehension is currently capable of understanding (some might say "God"), although it actually has no religious connotations at all.

However, the theory of Intelligent Design has been hi-jacked by the creationists who use it to justify their own religion, and is equated to creationsm by the evolutionists in an attempt to ridicule it.

Answer 3

Creation & Evolution should be tought in philophy or not at all. And if you teach one, you need to teach the other... as well as the spegetti monster thingy.

Why can't our kid concentrate on more things they can use. Like how to start and run their own business, or how our government (is supposed to) works.

Why don't we focus more on what we know about how biology works not, and not worry so much on what we can't prove.

MAYBE ALIENS CREATED US! According to some acient races and some peoples modern evidance they did. Maybe they should teach that in school too!?

It's definately a possiblity that alians created man. It's definately a possiblity that alians created the animals on earth to. But I bet teaching that in school would get both the Evolutionist and the Religionists all upset...

Even if you said the the Alians EVOLVED and then came and CREATED the Earth.

No body was there when it happened. When WHATEVER HAPPENED. So I wish everyone would quit saying they're right and the other side is wrong! Because the fact is neither side was there and NEITHER SIDE CAN PROVE IT!

(P.S. I don't believe alians created the Earth. I'm just using that as my example to show there are actually more then just two possibilites. And the fact is, we just don't know and can't prove either.)

Answer 4

It is the fault of American-style Christianity. Since the upsurge of things like the "Alpha Course", and suchlike, this means we are now using American-type recruiting methods. I don't think the churches really give a f*ck about how Creationism is one step away from anthropomorphism, and an advance towards mental retardation - they simply want bums on pews, and are f*ckin' grateful for the fodder they receive, however poor quality. If you tried this survey maybe 20 years ago, I bet it would be approx. 5% or so - but as we become more like the USA, don't be surprised when we all become as retarded as them as well.

Answer 5

A percentage of students will also believe in ghosts and UFO's. I guess the 'loony left' is responsible for that too?
It was a conservative government who started the whole dumbing down process by cutting funding to education, since tax cuts were more important than education.
Once that process was started it has proven extremely difficult to reverse. People don't want to pay more tax to fund education; when their own children attend private schools, or they don't have any.

As a theory I.D. is flawed and incomplete, as is evolutionary theory. When learning, students are supposed to be taught how to think more than what to think. Information and facts are learned, and the students absorb them into an existing framework.
The belief in I.D. despite the evidence that the theory is deeply flawed says more about our culture than our education system. If 30% of students have parents who are Christians or hippies, it goes some way towards explaining the percentage. Students learn facts at school but learn attitudes at home. They go to school with those attitudes. Since this is not a dictatorship we do not send them to psychiatric units for 're-education'.
It is not the place for the State to nanny our beliefs. Or to dictate to us to which religion we must or must not belong.

If you understood anything about human behaviour you would not be surprised by this, nor by the right wing backlash currently gaining popularity amongst a certain group of the population.

Answer 6

Such appalling ignorance is terrifying. These crazy people believe the analysis of some daft bishop who worked out that the Earth was created at 9.00 am on a Thursday in October some 5,973 years ago. He doesn't say if it was British summer time or Central European time.
Incidental since the Sun wasn't created on the first day and you measure a day as the time it takes between two sunrises, then how do you know that the first day was actually a day?

Answer 7

NO since the age you speak of is supposed to be humanity standing up and deciding for themselves what the answers to spirituality are instead of being told by the church..the opposite is happening..the Church wants creationism taught in school but it was denied...so they came up with "Intelligent Design" which, like creationism, has no evidence or data to support it but religion wants it taught next to Evolution, which has lots of supporting data done scientifically, as pure science when it is religious philosophy. This whole issue is a religious movement to water down science to say what religion wants in an effort to make people believe what religion says by any means needed

Now we can teach the design theory in school but only in religion or philosophy class...not science class as it is not science, might as well teach cooking as US history!

This all come from the extreme right and extreme left who have stolen control from their betters (the moderates). Left came to conclusion that every single idea is as good as another no matter what it is..which is bogus as if you said "the sky looks blue" and I screamed back "Billy billy billy bob baby bumper" the leftists would say both are valid..which is crap! Then the extreme right is using the ideas of the left to rip apart society by trying to place religion where it does not belong and saying that it isn't fair that ideas with no evidence be denied the honorific of scientific truth in opposition to all common sense, scientific method, and morality.

People are so wishy washy now that they cave at the merest hint of conflict and always try to compromise even with the most degraded ideas and values. The moral and decent idea of free speech has been twisted so that instead of tolerating speech it has become "you MUST accept whatever is said or you are a bigot, or a satanist". This has been done by the vile, corrupt and disgusting left AND right extremists who are using any means neccessary to keep the people fighting so that we don't realize that the inmates are running the asylum.

Answer 8

Creationism is a great non secular tale wise layout is an enticing philosophical theory Evolution is clinical theory supported by technique of 100 and fifty+ years of empirical info. So which do i have self assurance? the single it really is authentic over the different 2 that are literally not info. that is Evolution. Now which sounds the prettiest? that is Creationism it really is ideal for debate topic even as stoned? identity fingers down

Answer 9

It seems a sad fact that the Human race requires a certain mysticism to water down its reality.

A secular society will never exist because most people don't want to believe they are alone in a hostile universe.

Also a much larger percentage of the population are now attending university, and I'm sure many of them are far from "intellectual".

How many people do you know who drank themselves silly through their degree, and still walked away with a 2-2, if not a 2-1?

Intelligence and wisdom has never gone completely hand in hand with education.

Answer 10

Well, you could put the blame on the liberal, aka loony left for most of it.
They forced the slant on normal kids, tweaking curriculums, to dumb down the kids, and get them through school, and at the same time, removed all references, to God, creation, and faith from education....and anyone who thought otherwise, was considered an idiot.
Personally, I think the intellegent design, is hokum....but considering how stupid the Supreme court was, with Oconner, and that other fossil that finally died, now maybe the court can take back the law from activist judges, who want you to believe, there was no Adam, but two lesbians in the garden of Clinton.