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[W: #593] Correlation Between Religiosity And Scientific Illiteracy Or Hostility

You confuse science with religion and demonstrate that you know very little about science. Science provides evidence. It's like you think science just makes things up as it goes along?
You confuse religion with science and demonstrate your ignorance of both. Researchers provide the evidence. Science is merely a tool. It's like you think people are never cynical and are not trying to prop up their own views at the expense of those of another. Only Creationists have nothing of a material nature to lose...
 
The idiot left insists developing babies are not human beings but rather 'zygotes'...worthless clumps of tissue...and can be killed in the name of convenience.
The idiot left insists men can be women, women can be men, people can be any of 179 made up pronouns, and all of them can get pregnant. (in which the baby produced can be killed because it is really not human..just a worthless clump of cells.)
The idiot left has pressed to destroy a fossil fuel industry the world NEEDS while touting green energy systems that fail to provide a viable replacement.
The idiot left has spent the last 3 decades promoting the global warming lies that have all fallen flat.
The idiot left blindly swallows every lie they are spoon fed about COVID and vaccines.

And you want to talk about science deniers?

:ROFLMAO:
Oh but I did read it. It is a mindless opinion piece that makes the idiotic claim that religious people are unscientific.

Many of the leading scientists and medical researchers in the world are religious people.

Its rather comical...the article attacks people that accept creationism over say...the Big Bang. Faith based people dont you know. Yet...the VAST majority of people that profess a belief in the Big Bang as the preferred theory regarding the creation of all life and matter as we know it today...take it on faith because of what someone has told them about a theory they really know little to nothing about and cant answer the most basic of questions regarding the actual occurrence of the Big Bang.

You would know about mindless opinions.
 


That's a pathetic piece of rag. Old cliche that "Goddidit."



Rational people know that many Christians - especially those with education - most especially so, apologists - simply don't respond and say, "God did it."
They usually have more to say than just that. :)

Like what? Like the bible being evidence for the accuracy of the bible?
 
You confuse religion with science and demonstrate your ignorance of both
A Pee Wee Herman response.
Researchers provide the evidence. Science is merely a tool. It's like you think people are never cynical and are not trying to prop up their own views at the expense of those of another.
Science is more than just a tool. It's also a process, methodology, and system of observing, understanding, and explaining how our reality works. It's also the best way to do that while being as objective as possible and reducing bias as much as possible. The strength of one's views is proportional to the objective empirical evidence they can produce to support it. Anyone can have a particular view about something, but without objective evidence, it doesn't have any validity.
 
And the beauty of science is that it is true whether you believe it or not [paraphrasing Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson]
But what allows anyone to do science properly is its objectivity. Unfortunately, not everyone seems capable of being objective.
It depends on the science. In the soft sciences one can be quite creative with objectivity.
 
A Pee Wee Herman response.

Science is more than just a tool. It's also a process, methodology, and system of observing, understanding, and explaining how our reality works. It's also the best way to do that while being as objective as possible and reducing bias as much as possible. The strength of one's views is proportional to the objective empirical evidence they can produce to support it. Anyone can have a particular view about something, but without objective evidence, it doesn't have any validity.
No! The Pee Wee Herman response is, "I know you are but what am I?" Science is a tool and a study, but it can do NOTHING on its own, anymore than any cook book can bake a cake. Science doesn't explain how reality works. The opinions of men who study science come to such conclusions and wrote the cookbook. However, if they ignore data or miss data, such determinations are flawed. I know you now need to study objective empirical evidence as determined by Creation scientists and quit depending on the Atheists and Agnostics of this world to provide you with some UNBIASED view. They cannot and they will not.
 
Is your dictionary broken, or do you just not know how to use it?
Didn't care enough to go through any effort, so I thought I'd ask the guy who used it.
 
It's amusing that a cult of stupidity which flat earthers are should be commenting on this thread.
Pointing out the hypocrisy of climate jihadists when they bash religionists, yet have the same silly logic that governs their beliefs, is fun.
 
Pointing out the hypocrisy of climate jihadists when they bash religionists, yet have the same silly logic that governs their beliefs, is fun.
Yet your the one with the flat earth view that no one cares about.
 
No! The Pee Wee Herman response is, "I know you are but what am I?"
Effectively repeating back what I said with a minor alteration, as if you're making some point, is a Pee Wee Herman type response. Juvenile!
Science is a tool and a study, but it can do NOTHING on its own, anymore than any cook book can bake a cake. Science doesn't explain how reality works. The opinions of men who study science come to such conclusions and wrote the cookbook. However, if they ignore data or miss data, such determinations are flawed.
Scientific studies and research are often repeated and results verified or not to establish veracity. New evidence or findings may be found, which can affect the results. But each repeat, especially when it yields the same results, only builds on the veracity of the findings and conclusions, as well as diminish potential bias. Science generally does not accept something once and at face value before making a conclusion.
I know you now need to study objective empirical evidence as determined by Creation scientists and quit depending on the Atheists and Agnostics of this world to provide you with some UNBIASED view. They cannot and they will not.
What objective empirical evidence? A "Creationist scientist" already has a built in bias favoring dogma. So do you it would seem. Or do you think "creationist scientists" are not capable of bias as you accuse more non-religious scientists or sources?
 
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For those who might disagree with the correlation presented in the article, let's take a look at the Gallup poll cited in the article. Look at the Church attendance section. See where the weekly attendees (consider that a strong religious belief) hold at a 68% level that humans are NOT the result of evolution? Even monthly attendees hold at a 47% level. Only 3% of the weekly and 6% of the monthly reflect the science (no evidence of a sentient entity guiding evolution; in fact, evidence to the contrary).



Americans' Views on Origin and Development of Humans, by Subgroup

God created man in present formMan developed, with God guidingMan developed, but God had no part
%%%
Church attendance
Weekly68263
Monthly47446
Seldom/Never273336
Religion
Protestant56336
Catholic344618
None142259
Education
No college degree483016
College degree234033
GALLUP, June 3-16, 2019
Religions historically have provided explanations for that which was unknown (i.e. "God did it."). Over time, especially with the advent of science, we learned that thunder and lightning really are not the result of an angry Zeus or Thor. And in modern times we have learned that human beings, and all other life on this planet, are (almost certainly) the result of billions of years of evolution.

As science advances, religious explanations become obsolete. Some religions adapt and change their position (e.g. the Catholic church recognized evolution as legitimate science in the 1950s) yet others do not. Those who cling to biblical explanations over science are, as a whole, more scientifically illiterate and/or hostile towards science.

The fact that both religiosity and scientific literacy are decreasing in the USA does not change the correlation of 'holding religious beliefs over science' and scientific illiteracy detailed in the studies underlying this article.
 
No! The Pee Wee Herman response is, "I know you are but what am I?" Science is a tool and a study, but it can do NOTHING on its own, anymore than any cook book can bake a cake. Science doesn't explain how reality works. The opinions of men who study science come to such conclusions and wrote the cookbook. However, if they ignore data or miss data, such determinations are flawed. I know you now need to study objective empirical evidence as determined by Creation scientists and quit depending on the Atheists and Agnostics of this world to provide you with some UNBIASED view. They cannot and they will not.

There is no data for god.
 
There is data for CHRIST and it is found in an historical document known as the Bible.

There is data for Allah in the Quran, for Zeus in the Iliad, and for Ra in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. What of it?
 
There is data for CHRIST and it is found in an historical document known as the Bible.
Circular logic. That's like saying there is data for Harry Potter in the document known as the Harry Potter book series.
 
Yet your the one with the flat earth view that no one cares about.
My view is based on science, not on ridiculous end of the world prophecies like your beliefs.
 
Circular logic. That's like saying there is data for Harry Potter in the document known as the Harry Potter book series.
Uh? What other ancient figures' existence do you deny because of Harry Potter books?
 
Circular logic. That's like saying there is data for Harry Potter in the document known as the Harry Potter book series.
Harry Potter was written by one author in a year, about places and individuals that never existed. The Bible was recorded over thousands of years by a variety of writers regarding actual people, places and things. All of it culminated in the birth, death, resurrection, assumption, and the MESSIAH's revelation as Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty GOD. the Everlasting FATHER the Prince of Peace ----- ALL prophesied throughout the books of the Bible.
 
Harry Potter was written by one author in a year, about places and individuals that never existed. The Bible was recorded over thousands of years by a variety of writers regarding actual people, places and things. All of it culminated in the birth, death, resurrection, assumption, and the MESSIAH's revelation as Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty GOD. the Everlasting FATHER the Prince of Peace ----- ALL prophesied throughout the books of the Bible.
All of which is still just stories written by multiple authors. But still stories nonetheless.
 
No it is not. No one is going to buy into that bullshit claim.
You mean your BS claim that taxing cow burps will save the earth? Thats true, no one with common sense would buy it. :LOL:
 
I deny claims made without evidence.
Which doesn't really address your circular logic claim.

But yeah, everyone has a personal evidential threshold for accepting truth claims and thus, denies claims that don't fit that evidential threshold.
 
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