Think Americans are ignorant? Try Russia

[Kulindahr]

This is incredible -- not even the religious basket cases in the U.S. are this bad:

Does the sun revolve around the Earth? One in every three Russians thinks so, a spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday.

In a survey released this week, 32 percent of Russians believed the Earth was the center of the Solar system; 55 percent that all radioactivity is man-made; and 29 percent that the first humans lived when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.

That last fits right in with the creationist idiocy; the other two are... um... well, yeah, whatever.

But here's another juicy bit:

The study also found that women were more likely than men to believe the scientific fallacies.

Do with that what you will.

source

 

[NineOfClubs]

I had a female friend who used to do fish catch inspections on Russian trawlers in Alaskan waters. Once she was on the deck of one ship, sat down on a metal locker/bench, and all the men started shouting at her, telling her she'd never have children if she sat on that cold surface.

 

[maxpowr9]

I dated a Russian guy once (by that I mean 1 date) and yah, they pretty much are "out there". Reckon it will take them a bit to get readjusted to the rest of the world but many of them (especially 25+) still live in the Soviet bubble.

 

[jackoroe]

Because it crosses generational lines, we can conclude that the communist education model wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

 

[NineOfClubs]

Because it crosses generational lines, we can conclude that the communist education model wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

And it's becoming our model....

 

[rareboy]

^ Yeah. Just look at the batshit crazy nonsense they want to teach in Texas. One more generation and their students will be certain that men walked with dinosaurs, that God planted the fossil record and that the earth is less than 5500 years old.

Thomas Jefferson never existed and the civil war was only about states rights.

 

[chrisrobin]

What's worse - this isn't even a generational thing like it (sort of) is in the U.S.

Their younger people are bat.shit.nuts.

Some major publication (maybe Newsweek?) interviewed students at a major university in Moscow, and an alarming number of them were Stalinists.

Conversely, I think there are enough people here who worship the memory of the Junior Senator from Wisconsin, the Hon. Joseph P. McCarthy , RIP. They condemn the actions of Joseph Welch and think that people like Roy Cohn, Whittacker Chambers, et al. were all victims of a "leftist" witch hunt. We even have a Representative who wants to investigate every member of Congress! Bring back HUAC. Bring back "black listing."

 

[chrisrobin]

^ Yeah. Just look at the batshit crazy nonsense they want to teach in Texas. One more generation and their students will be certain that men walked with dinosaurs, that God planted the fossil record and that the earth is less than 5500 years old.

Thomas Jefferson never existed and the civil war was only about states rights.

Not necessarily true. Jefferson spent most of his time fucking Sally Hemings and the Civil War was considered by many to be the "War of Northern Aggression" (and states' rights).

 

[Kulindahr]

One more generation and their students will be certain . . . that the earth is less than 5500 years old.

I've never heard of a sect that believes that. To whom are you referring?

 

[Keelandson]

One more generation and their students will be certain that men walked with dinosaurs, that God planted the fossil record and that the earth is less than 5500 years old.

I've never heard of a sect that believes that. To whom are you referring?

Unless you're quibbling about 200 years, Young earth creationists of any fundamentalist stripe. (Bolding mine.)

Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism that asserts the Heavens, Earth, and all life was created by direct acts of the Abrahamic God during a relatively short period, sometime between c. 5,700[1] and 10,000 years ago.[2] Its adherents are those Christians and Jews[3] who believe that God created the Earth in six 24-hour days, taking a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative as a basis for their beliefs,[4][5] and include around 10–45% of adults in the United States, depending on various polls. . . .
. . . According to a Gallup poll in December 2010, around 40% of Americans believe in YEC, rising to over 50% among Republicans but reducing strongly with level of education (only 22% of respondents with postgraduate degrees compared with 47% of those with high school or less)

 

[Kulindahr]

^
I forgot about Jewish creationists, which is where that smaller number comes from. Christian creationists rely on Arshbishop Ussher, who "calculated" that the Earth was created in 4004 B.C. around the autumnal equinox. That makes it 6015 -- or it will about the time of Halloween.

Oh, wait -- Halloween is pagan, and "good Christians" don't celebrate it.....

 

[rareboy]

Yes...I was genrally referring to the Young Earth Creationist idiots who likely will end up gaining control over the rest of the Texas and other southern state curricula over the next 20 years at the rate these states are moving backward.

mea culpa for missing 200 years....

 

[Kulindahr]

300 years. And change.

Which to sensible people is not much time, but to creationists is almost five percent of the "life" of the world.

 

[palemale]

^ Yeah. Just look at the batshit crazy nonsense they want to teach in Texas. One more generation and their students will be certain that men walked with dinosaurs, that God planted the fossil record and that the earth is less than 5500 years old.

Thomas Jefferson never existed and the civil war was only about states rights.

In Texas, and most of the South, if you want to be sure your kid is taught that evolution is true, you'd have to send them to Catholic school.

 

[White Eagle]

Yes...I was genrally referring to the Young Earth Creationist idiots who likely will end up gaining control over the rest of the Texas and other southern state curricula over the next 20 years at the rate these states are moving backward.

mea culpa for missing 200 years....

I could use some help down here. I can't get rid of them by myself!

 

[rareboy]

^ Is there any way you can distract them with bright shiny objects or bedtime stories about the rapture to keep them from breeding?

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Is there any way you can distract them with bright shiny objects or bedtime stories about the rapture to keep them from breeding?

Stories about the Rapture only turn them on.


Theological question: what happens if you're in the middle of hot sex when the Rapture happens?

 

[Keelandson]

It'll be so spectacular you won't know whether you're coming or going.

 

[bankside]

Stories about the Rapture only turn them on.


Theological question: what happens if you're in the middle of hot sex when the Rapture happens?

Ooh! Talk about your coitus interruptus!

Hey, what happens if you're busy happily fucking your married wife (married to you even), and not thinking about any of the neighbours' wives at all, and then suddenly just as you are at the brink of orgasm, it's Rapture time....(see where I'm going with this)....Suddenly, you aren't even in the room any more, but you're past the point of no return, and suddenly seed is spilling absolutely everywhere but the marital snatch, and suddenly you're sent to hell.

Talk about a raw deal.

 

[MoltenRock III]

Yes...I was genrally referring to the Young Earth Creationist idiots who likely will end up gaining control over the rest of the Texas and other southern state curricula over the next 20 years at the rate these states are moving backward.

mea culpa for missing 200 years....

Agreed. Not every Republican is a Young Earth Creationist (aka... nutjob), but every Young Earth Creationist (aka... nutjob) is a Republican.