How is there so much ignorance?

Question

I'm just wondering, honestly, how in the 21st century in the most technologically advanced country that human kind has ever seen, polls still show that somewhere around 50% of American citizens still believe that the entire universe was created by an omniscient god in 7 days. How is this possible? I assume there is just a basic lack of education regarding the natural sciences, but I am stunned. It is one thing to be a spiritual or religious person (in fact, i encourage it, it's an important aspect of a balanced life), but to essentially spit in the face of the past 200 years of well established scientific research just so you can be more pious or accepted within certain organizations boggles me. Seriously, can anyone fill me in on this? It's killing me!

Serious answers only please. I.E. No 14 year-olds who think they have been re-born.

Answer 1

Because faith is still held up as a virtue. Faith encourages belief without evidence, in fact it demands this.

Faith is heralded instead of spat upon, so someone who believes something despite the evidence is, is not considered a moron, but a superior sort of moral person.

Any true religion should be based on logic and reason, and not blind faith.

As Ayn Rand Says " if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind."

Answer 2

I am long past 14 and if I have been reborn, why did I do such a rotten job of it? While we are on it, are you sure you are not just as delutional as those you wrote about?

How do you believe all this got here? You refuse to believe creation yet if I asked you who made the coffee maker in your kitchen, immediately you would reply, "Black and Decker". How is it possible for you to understand a coffee maker but not the world did not come about by accident?

200 years of science proves the Bible to be true not false. 3,000 years ago, in Isaiah and Job, it said the earth was round and hung upon nothing. Long, long before Galilao was ever thought off. Today, science has proved it.

Creation in 7 days. What makes you think they are 24 hour days? From the end of man and woman's creation till now has been about 6,000 years when the 7th day started. It would not end till after Jesus' 1,000 year reign is done. That is 7,000 years for a creative day. This does not include the time between one day ending and another day beginning. Could it be millions of years? Quite possibly. Anyone building something must take into account drying, settling, and cooling. It is not counted as work.

Maybe some day you can lose your prejudice and be able to see the Bible for the wonderful work it is.

Answer 3

I could not agree with you more, I am a Christian (Catholic), but I basically at this moment agree with evolution and the big bang (obviously these were created and monitored by God), I too believe that science and philosophy (religion) are necessary to live a truly meaningful life, you cannot substitute one for the other as people often do.

Answer 4

How is it that there are so many people who are willing to believe the lies of so-called scientists who obviously have their own agenda (i.e., keeping their cushy, government funded jobs looking down microscopes)? Well established scientific research? That's your opinion. Just because your biology teacher in 10th grade told you a bunch of "facts" that you memerized so you could pass the class doesn't make it true.

Answer 5

It is willful ignorance. They really, really don't want anything that conflicts with their notion of god.

I do also think some schools let students opt-out of some classes or portions of classes if their parents put up a big enough stink. Personally I think they should just fail if they don't or won't do the curriculum.

Answer 6

Religion cannot survive with the full disclosure of reality. It is in their interests to keep their followers as dumbed down as possible. When we finally rid the world of such manipulation and ignorance, we will move forward in huge leaps. Unfortunately not in most of our lifetimes.

Answer 7

One wonders how you measure a day when the sun did not exist until day 4.

Perhaps the authors of the Bible had managed to integrate Quantum theory with general relativity.

Answer 8

well established research??think of where all the knowledge came from in the first place we would all be ignorant if God hadnt given people knowledge to begin with including yourself/how was science established w/o God it couldnt be drawn from a mindless ignorant

Answer 9

First of all- it was 6 days.
Basic lack of education??? There are uneducated people in every profession. To say that people who believe in creation know nothing about natural sciences tells us that you are not very educated yourself. See the following link.

http://www.whoisyourcreator.org/images/Dissent_List_February_2007.pdf

This list has about 700+ scientist who disagree with you and it list their fields of expertise and current stations.

If you check, you will find that many evolutionist don't have a clue about what they believe.

Answer 10

hey i know what u mean! Christians still insist that the world is only 4000 years old... but we have scientific proof that the world is much much older... science IS catching up and proving stories in the bible must not be true... but its hard to question why people are still ignorant.... maybe they are the blind ones? but its OK to have Ur own beliefs, we will just stick to ours and let them stick to theirs, Jonah and whale and all...

I'm gonna loose points for this, but instead of taking points off maybe respect my opinion, as i respect urs and i am open to that, this is just MY opinion, and it shouldn't effect you too much.

PS, bloody funny "no 14 year old who think they have been reborn" lol