And they vote
I grew up in the state that hosted the Scopes trial. 100 years later, 25% of my fellow citizens believe in creationism.
“Trollinger and Trollinger note that today approximately one-quarter of all Americans are young-earth creationists and reject much of modern biology and modern geology, not to mention modern cosmology. Answers in Genesis, which is strictly YEC, is now the world’s largest creationist organization. We report occasionally on AIG’s Ark Park, most recently here, so I will not dwell on it. Trollinger and Trollinger note that the Ark Park and other museums such as the Creation Museum attract millions of visitors.
“Worse, though, they point to “an ever-expanding network of fundamentalist schools and homeschools that present young Earth creationism as true science.” Yet more worse, they say that at least 15 states have school choice programs which use tax money to pay for private and home schools. I would add only that these private schools take scarce funds from public schools that need them badly.”
Ignorance and superstition are winning. Sad.
25% of Americans reject evolution
“Trollinger and Trollinger note that today approximately one-quarter of all Americans are young-earth creationists and reject much of modern biology and modern geology, not to mention modern cosmology. Answers in Genesis, which is strictly YEC, is now the world’s largest creationist organization. We report occasionally on AIG’s Ark Park, most recently here, so I will not dwell on it. Trollinger and Trollinger note that the Ark Park and other museums such as the Creation Museum attract millions of visitors.
“Worse, though, they point to “an ever-expanding network of fundamentalist schools and homeschools that present young Earth creationism as true science.” Yet more worse, they say that at least 15 states have school choice programs which use tax money to pay for private and home schools. I would add only that these private schools take scarce funds from public schools that need them badly.”
Ignorance and superstition are winning. Sad.
25% of Americans reject evolution
Joel:
Maybe we will have another Scopes Monkey Trial yet? Here we are 100 years later (as you stated) since that trial July 10-21 in Dayton TN. High-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Maybe Trump can prosecute and Kamala Harris can be the Defense attorney.
I would like to see such a matchup.
Six days later in July (on the 10th) of 1925, the trial commenced.
“Scopes Trial | Summary, Issues, & Facts,” Britannica
Came upon an interesting book at the AirBNB I was vacationing in last week (in PA). Didn’t finish it entirely, but the thesis was that the six days of Genesis creation ought to be thought of as a re-creation of a livable world on the “void” of a previously entirely destroyed world, which occupied our planet pre-Genesis, of which physical remains of that past abound in our current version. The “evidence” is fundamentally ancient Hebrew texts and the argument is founded in a pretty substantial amount of specific Hebrew vocabulary and syntax that indicates (to the writer, at least) that the Genesis creation was not “ex nihlio” in a physical sense, but terms like “void” and “formless” were descriptions of incredible devastation our planet was in at the moment of Genesis creation. I have no way of evaluating the language analysis, but the author did present quite a lot of seemingly reasonable connections between the written descriptions in Genesis and many of the prophets and, particularly, a good number of verses in various Psalms. Even a fair number of New Testament verses, likely written thinking of communicating with the earliest Jewish “Christians”. Didn’t finish it, but I don’t think it was a “catastrophe” book….more like, ‘things went bad pre-Genesis, but you don’t need a precise explanation to understand that Genesis just starts with that already over’. It was “young earth” but theological, not physically. The Creation Museum is very close to Cincinnati and at one point had a nice menagerie with camel rides, so I’ve visited with our kids. The grounds were very nice, with a really good playground. The museum exhibits are objectively well made, even if they failed to convert us. I came away with a deeper understanding of Creationism, which, even if not correct, still can be useful in comprehending beliefs that I don’t share. It is also near a couple of Northern Kentucky “must see (or nice to see)”: Rabbit Hash and Big Bone Lick, the later being reputed as a birthplace of American paleontology.
@Eric,
The Bible doesn’t tell us *how* the earth was made, it tells us *why* the earth was made. Science, on the other hand, doesn’t claim to tell us why, only how.