What percentage of the electorate understands the difference between "accepting" and "believing"?

Question

Many people, especially Christians, use religious language to describe their positions on scientific theories. For example, they "believe" in intelligent design and consider a "fact" to be a proven "theory".

This is not, of course, the nomenclature of science. You do not believe in a theory, you "accept" the theory. A theory is not promoted to a fact when it is proven, a theory is a documented hypothesis to explain the facts. Fact: things fall to grown. Theory: gravity.

What percentage of the American electorate fails to understand this basic vocabulary? Is there a correlation with a failure to understand scientific terms and support for intelligent design?

Answer 1

What percentage of the electorate actually understands anything more profound than which team won the last ball game?

As to your question; I think it is highly likely that there is a correlation.

Answer 2

wow , your jumping alot, from Christians to Americans,,, yes i think we can accept a theory, we also can believe in one, ,,, i believe in the theory that if we stop hitting children,, the world will be less violent,,,,, the facts are hitting children causes them to hit ,,,, i also can accept or believe in facts, sometimes i accept scienctific things not based on facts, just because i can find no good facts/theories,,, as to terms,, we in America use electorate to refer to voting,,,, so are you speaking of voters?
i think many who accept and support intelligent design understand scientific terms
i also wonder why we spend so much time on science when many have not yet even learned how to not generalize, put others down, try to tell them how to think, define their terms for them etc,,,,,,

Answer 3

From faith attitude: Catholic church by no ability close its doors for gay. She doesn't even ask gay human beings to modify their sexual orientation. yet, even as it includes marriage, the rule of thumb speaks and that i don't think of that the rule of thumb will substitute contained in the close to destiny. Now, that's the turn to ask their tolerance to the the church's rule. carry on the argument that being gay isn't incorrect contained in the first position, so there is no longer something to tolerate. no remember no matter if that's perfect or incorrect, contained in the starting up the church see it as "incorrect". replacing the approach from being incorrect to impartial, shows that the Church has discovered the thanks to tolerate. From my attitude: in my opinion, I actually have no longer something to do hostile to gay marriage. when we discuss marriage i imagine love is the biggest. as long as both activities agree, it should not be a situation.

Answer 4

80-20%

Answer 5

there is a correlation between dumb people and religious belief