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

Someone didn't look at those graphs properly did he? Ignore my rubbish!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>; "PvM"
<pvm.pandas@gmail.com>; "ASA Discussions" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: 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
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>> 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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>>
>> Bill Hamilton
>> William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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>> "...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
>>
>>
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