Ok this equates to the Old Testament, but are these people all devoutly religious, or are they not taught that science has long disproved this theory?
2006-10-07 04:54:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Does it really matter?
First of all, if the number of people polled is not large enough or is not representative, then the results of this poll tell us nothing reliable about the population as a whole.
Second does it effect their daily life? Belief systems are learned as children, usually before the mind is capable of rational logic. Most people do not look into the history or pre-history of the species. They are not curious about the subject. Their behavior is not dependent upon knowing much more than a few facts from a couple of generations ago.
Considering that more often than not, younger people use Velcro on their shoes (and some still do not know how to tie laces), digital timepieces (not... and the big hand is on the ...) and electronic calculators, even older things required for a good education is changing.
It may not matter what they are taught, it is what they learn that has a bearing on their behavior.
2006-10-07 05:07:04 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 69⤊ 0⤋
Ha Ha this only confirms what a sorry bunch a 1/3 of 6th formers are. The scary thing is that the majority will survive to become those running the country in 15 to 20 years. I would have thought that given the access they have to information from the net etc that they wouldn't be so dim. Ye gods and little children.
2006-10-10 23:07:04 · answer #2 · answered by Pattythepunk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a nice round number that seems to attract Christian fundamentalist thinking. In the U.S. it is closer to 50% of people who believe this, both adults and children.
I would say that it is the result of both religion and education. If something is passed along as religious truth and never challenged in the classroom, then it is the default concept of human origins. If it is passed along as religious truth and challenged in the classrooms, then often there is intimidation of school officials or just the teachers until someone more suitable is introduced. However, once the children leave their home environment (for example to go to college) then there is a much higher rate of acceptance of scientific thought. Which is one reason why fundamentalist groups often actively fight to keep their children from secular higher education.
However, I don't know if American fundamentalists are of the same stripe as British fundamentalists. Over here, though, it is a combination of both religious teachings at home and lack of science teachings in the schools that contributes to the creationism among students.
2006-10-07 20:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by almethod2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if i were a bored student in the UK, and some statistician came around looking for data, i would probably not even listen to the question, and just pick a random answer. or: it's possible that it was a voluntary response situation, where the students who chose to respond were those who had strong religious ideas anyway. i hope it was just bad data, because it's so disheartening to think people are that freaking clueless.
2006-10-08 19:28:39 · answer #4 · answered by lb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm from the UK. Evolutonary science was not covered in the curriculmn. The British are not really religious. God is no longer in fashion except in the faith schools.
2006-10-10 10:17:58 · answer #5 · answered by MrSandman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was about 320,000 years ago actually, neanderthals and they got wiped out by a superior race, who had developed more sophisticated weapons. This can be proven! tell me what you intend to do with the information when you get it and leave your mail box open or contact me and i'll give you all the answers if your looking for an honours degree!
2006-10-07 05:56:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
4000 BC would eqate to the Biblical dating
40,000 BC would equate to reality.
They have got it wrong on both counts. Thats the cost of bad education.
genus Homo neandertal 350,000 years ago.
Lucy Homo erectus was about 4,000,000 years ago.
I suspect they are just unthinking and didn't listen at school.
2006-10-07 05:33:22 · answer #7 · answered by Ashley K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't see how it affects their tiny little lives. Let them get on with breeding feral kids and getting their HND in Catering so that they can work at McDs for more than the minimum wage!
2006-10-07 05:03:22 · answer #8 · answered by bovie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Do you have faith that guy got here from a rock 3.6 billion years in the past?" No that'd be stupid "20 billion years in the past huge bang 4.6 billion years in the past earth cooled down" stunning and stunning. "3.6 billion years in the past (it rained upon the rocks becoming a soup that existence shaped in) Then the each and every of the flora, animals, fish, ECT ... created itself" incorrect. It says that the essential situations existed to create organic and organic compounds and consequently existence ended up bobbing up from the various many many chemical components and such attainable and combining for the time of those reactions. "in case you have faith each and every thing got here from a rock?? Why do you think of i'm loopy as quickly as I say it got here from God (Jesus Christ)? Hmm. Who’s your god …God or rock? My God made the rock" not a rock, from organic reactions which we've examined in comparable situations to primordial earth. and that i say you're loopy on account which you supply no data in desire of what you have faith and as a exchange declare a similar to the genie from Aladdin poofing each and every thing into existence.
2016-10-18 23:34:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Piss-poor education (for whatever reason) coupled with religious indoctrination and lazy thinking.
2006-10-07 05:07:54 · answer #10 · answered by Skeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats scary. They believe something with no evidence of truth rather than scientific proof?
2006-10-08 22:24:20 · answer #11 · answered by Catwhiskers 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋