Re: [asa] American political conservatism impedes the understanding of science

The interesting thing is that those from "fundamental" backgrounds are
mostly evolutionist (74%?) if they go to grad school, in other words the
more education they get the less creationist they are.

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
To: "PvM" <pvm.pandas@gmail.com>; "ASA Discussions" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] American political conservatism impedes the understanding
of science

> Hmm, I have a Ph.D. (in electrical engineering, of course, so that makes
> me not
> a scientist :-)), I accept evolution (under God's sovereignty) and I'm
> politically conservative. Hmm, must be because I'm left-handed :-)).
>
> Seriously, thanks for posting this, PIM. I think generally it rings true.
> Do
> you know what volume and number the graph is published in?
>
> --- PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On PT it is reported that
>>
>> Science magazine has just published a graph of data taken from a
>> general social survey of Americans that quantifies what most of us
>> assume: a well-educated liberal who is not a fundamentalist is much
>> more likely to accept evolution than a conservative fundamentalist
>> with only a high school education. You can see the trend fairly
>> clearly: here we see the percent believing in evolution vs.
>> fundamentalism, amount of education, and self-reported political
>> views.
>>
>> For image see
>> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/01/belief_in_evo.jpg
>> or for a larger picture:
>> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/01/belief_in_evo_lg.php
>>
>> The percentage of respondents believing in human evolution is plotted
>> simultaneously against political view (conservative, moderate,
>> liberal), education (high school or less, some college, graduate
>> school), and respondent's religious denomination (fundamentalist or
>> not). Belief in evolution rises along with political liberalism,
>> independently of control variables.
>>
>> Continue reading "American political conservatism impedes the
>> understanding of science" (on Pharyngula)
>>
> (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/01/american_political_conservatis.php)
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