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The New York Times says:

"One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?ex=1183780800&en=e3760aa7d1b5022a&ei=5070

What do you make of such a fact?

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2007-07-06 06:56:58 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

40 answers

I really, really don't want to believe this.

2007-07-06 06:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 12 1

Visually, Sun revolves around the Earth.
Scientifically, Earth revolves around sun.

2007-07-06 07:07:05 · answer #2 · answered by Nijg 6 · 2 0

That we are WAY beyond the need for standardized education in this country. I responded to a post yesterday that sounded like it was written by an illiterate 6 year old, and he claimed to be 16 AND in high school. Those 1 in 5 American adults are symptomatic of the entire breakdown of the education process.

2007-07-06 07:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by mikalina 4 · 6 0

Oh I believe that there are people out there like that because I have actually talked to one of them before.

By far the funniest and also most frightening conversation I've had with a fundie was in person. I was talking to this one Christian, he starts going on about how glorious the stars in the sky are, how they sing God's glory. But the scary part was what he said next, according to this one fundie (who was a 40 year old adult) God placed the stars in the firmament for our viewing pleasure and that they are really small specks of light and exist in a dome around Earth. Then he says that scientists don't know how far away the stars are or what size they are. I was at that point kind of shocked and asked why he'd think that. He told me because scientists were guessing, they were just using math. After all it's just a theory.

2007-07-06 07:02:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7 2

Planet Earth revolves around the sun.

2007-07-06 06:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 1 1

"According to Genesis 1: 14-17 the Sun and moon are set in a solid firmament around the Earth" can you please elaborate that as i don't see it.... "Also, according to Psalms 93 and 1 Chronicles 16, the Earth is fixed in place and cannot move." in case you didn't know "the world" doesn't always refer to the physical earth.

2016-05-19 23:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"What do you make of such a fact?"

--- Jumping holy beans - the education system is all screwed up, ain't it?

Now, perhaps it's time to give some credence to the conspiracy theory that Neil Armstrong was at a Hollywood studio all that time, and not on the moon - ?

2007-07-06 07:02:51 · answer #7 · answered by autumnleaves 3 · 5 0

Wow. They are idiots.

the Earth revolves around the Sun.

2007-07-06 07:03:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

They probably polled a thousand people as their control group.. I would hope that the percentage is actually lower.

Nonetheless, I think the story of Gallileo would be good reading for that 20%.

2007-07-06 07:10:50 · answer #9 · answered by umwut? 6 · 3 0

I am not surprised.

Still, I'd rack this one up to ignorant and/or stupid people who may or may not be fundamentalists rather than ignorance or stupidity caused by fundamentalism (like the belief in a 6000 year old Earth).

While it is true that the bible says the sun goes around the Earth, I think most christians have learned to skip those verses.

2007-07-06 06:59:19 · answer #10 · answered by Dave P 7 · 5 2

You mean it doesn't???

Um... there are a lot of stupid/ and or ignorant people out there?

Many people believe that men have one fewer rib than women because of the Adam and Eve story too.

This "sun revolving the earth" belief really doesn't surprise me. I wonder how many people think the earth is flat? LOL

2007-07-06 07:03:37 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4 1

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