Why in USA there are lots of creationists while in Europe everybody is evolutionist ?

Question

Vatican City
Area : 0.44 km² (232nd)
Population (2007 estimate) : 800

Europe
Area : 10,180,000 km² (3,930,000 sq mi)
Population : 710,000,000

I'm european and I don't know any creationist.

I don't everyone in Europe of course but there are more than 90% evolutionist here.

Answer 1

Because Americans are stark mad.

I guess that the wretched American education system is to blame. If children are semi literate and have no mathematics, they imagine that scientific facts are a matter of opinion. Or they find science and maths "boring" and unimportant. Worse, the managers in charge of the school believe they have to give equal weight to competing theories, as though Creationism were a scientific theory like the bacterial theory of disease. They don't understand the nature of evidence. British universities are more or less stopping the admission of American students to biological courses because they are so ignorant of the basics, which all relate to the Theory of Evolution.

The bizarre political correctness that's been forced onto publishers in the US does not help. Publishing polemic used to be encouraged and thought worthy. Nowadays, wholly uncontentious biology text books come with labels attached saying, "Nobody who wrote or published this book believes any of it."

Answer 2

Europeans are less into bul*****

Which, after all, has Hollywood and Disney and other dream machines. There are plenty of religious people in UK and Europe, However it is tempered with commonsense and a belief that it is not their place to RAM it down others throats.

My fear is that as Europe, and especially the USA lap dog UK, become more and more American we will import all the stupidity. After all the USA has the worse weight problems and the health issues that go with it. Now because the UK is following - we are getting it too.

What next? Well we in the UK have clung despreatily to a measuring system so out of date - our excuse - the USA uses it. Will the rest of the world be soo daft as to follow the UK. I hope not.

Answer 3

Better basic education...

Also higer average IQ

Seriously,
I think it's just that religion doesn't play a big part in europe, most people are christians only in name. You can actually become a president of a european nation without playing the christian card. One thing might be that most schools can have religion classes. Comparative religion tends to put things in perspective.

I was a member of the lutheran church (up to the day I could legally quit on my own), and I've been to church exactly 8 times. and 3 of those were weddings. That's within 16 years and 1 day. So I'd say religion didn't play a major part in my life...if that's some indicaton of how european religions work ;)

And to be honest, we are better educated up to the highschool level... americans only catch up in university level. I've studied in the US and I was apalled at how little the people knew... for example anthropology 101, should be a piece of cake... and I remember going through that stuff at grade 8 in my country...

I never did find out if it was the place (Marshall U.), or the students (could be they took it just as a filler), but they seemed to lack the level of knowledge we'd expect a 14 year old to have.

Oh, and we don't have televangelists! :)

Answer 4

There are probably a lot of factors. When the theory of evolution first became public there were a lot of objections to it in Europe but it gradually became accepted.
Now in Europe creationism seems a ridiculous theory for the most part.
America is so Polarised in terms of opinion, you cannot be slightly conservative without being branded a republican and you cannot express a liberal opinion without being branded Democrat. Similarly with evolution, you cannot express a belief in it without being branded an atheist.
In Europe it seems more acceptable to believe in evolution while still believing in god. Even the pope has acknowledged the theory of evolution to be most likely. The two beliefs do not have to be mutually exclusive.

Answer 5

As you will see by utilising the dying threats to the choose and his kin this argument attracts out the lunatics. Darwin got here up with an concept a hundred and fifty years in the past. in the previous the boost in technologies and with truly a sprint on the understanding we've. considering then hundreds of scientists have used limitless discoveries to characteristic to the concept. each and every time some thing turns up incorrect creationists initiate screaming. yet, no longer only does the concept nevertheless stand, that's lots greater advantageous now than it has ever been. interior the top nevertheless, it does not coach or disprove God in any way. and that i do no longer think of Darwin, or all of us else, truly meant it to be a non secular argument. The previous testomony is only that, previous. on the time it replaced into written human beings had no clue how previous the Earth replaced into or the place we got here from and the greater this factor is argued, and the greater evidence emerges that shows how dated the e book is, the greater faith will bend to adapt. only like the present fact from the Vatican asserting that there must be existence on different planets and if its got here across that does no longer disprove God or the bible. So, in a technological awareness type, we could desire to constantly be coaching technological awareness as as much as this factor as obtainable. no longer telling scholars that that's how that's and additionally you greater acceptable believe it or you are going to hell. It does not could desire to be one way or the different yet technological awareness is technological awareness and that i don't have a situation with throwing in that that's okay to believe what your faith tells you to believe. Given the innovations maximum human beings will form their very own opinion and that why we've been "created" with minds of our very own.

Answer 6

Not everybody, there are some creationists around here too. Our (the Dutch) minister of education actually promoted a national discussion on ID versus evolution, and our own little bible belt has only recently lost the battle to keep evolution out of the national biology curriculum. But yeah, there is a difference and it is directly connected to the difference in religiosity between our two continents.

edit: are you sure? have you asked? OK, I guess it also depends on the country.

edit2: this website suggests it's closer to 80%, and has some details on creationists in various countries:

http://www.fsteeman.dds.nl/europe/euroframe.html

Answer 7

most europeans are not evolutionists with a big E, they accept that evolution is the process that brought about life on earth the way we see it, but it is not an ideological issue. they accept it in the same way as any sane person would accept the explanation of the water cycle: the facts fit so therefore it's a reasonable explanation. it doesn't cross their minds to question it because it is built on verifiable evidence and there is no evidence with any credible or respectable provenance to contradict it or falsify it. most europeans are now vaguely deist, apathist, agnostic or atheist so there is no controversy about evolution. oh, and we teach comparative religion here. when you teach different religions side by side you begin to see how contradictory and ridiculous they are.

Answer 8

People in the USA don't like facts or anything to do with facts. Most people here like to be in a place that is based on stories or rumors and the facts are swept away. The problem started when the Pilgrims came promising the king of England they would establish a church that would control the new world. It has worked then and now but people will not read the mayflower manifest because it would prove my statement to be based on at least a fact. It seems that sports and show biz here are the major players and reality would never allow this if things were based on any facts. Perception is the rule in the USA and Europe would rather examine the facts.

Answer 9

Even the Pope believes in evolution. The creationist thing is just used to try to get control of the political system and force their beliefs on everybody. I agree that the Europeans are better educated (I am totally uninhibited by any knowledge of the facts though!)i. Makes this tactic tougher to use over there!

Answer 10

Not true,in fact the majority acknowledge a creator,
the UK and Ireland have been exposed a lot more to the creation theory, through cultural links between them and the U.S.Freedom and democracy have a lot to do with also,quite rightly considered a right and not a privilege as they regard it in Europe.

I'm European and i know many creationists.
They always tend to be the critical thinkers by the way.

Andy: you need to get out a lot more.
Why do Atheists tend to be a so bitter anyway?