If God existed, I’d wish he would help his ignorant followers in Texas:
Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
38 percent said human beings developed over millions of years with God guiding the process and another 12 percent said that development happened without God having any part of the process. Another 38 percent agreed with the statement “God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago.”
Did humans live at the same time as the dinosaurs? Three in ten Texas voters agree with that statement; 41 percent disagree, and 30 percent don’t know.
Also here’s some evidence that Texas Democrats are smarter than Republicans:
Democrats (28 percent) are less likely than Republicans (47 percent) to think that humans have always existed in their present form and more likely (21 percent to 7 percent) to think humans have developed over millions of years without God’s guidance. Republicans are less likely to believe that humans developed from earlier species of animals; 26 percent agree, while 60 percent disagree. Among Democrats in the survey, 46 percent agree that humans evolved from earlier species; 42 percent disagree. Perry’s voters were most hostile to this premise — 67 percent disagree.
Looks like there’s a good part of Texas that needs to be told about the last couple centuries of scientific enlightenment.
This is the state that gave us Gee Dubya and Perry the Domionist.
Nuff said.
I’m not Texan. I’m, uh, Texican. Yeah, that’s it. Texican.
Secession. Think about it.
If Texas succeeded. The average intelligence level of the US would double.
And to think that this is the state with the Atheist Experience and the Nonprophets. There is some signs of intelligence there.
Don’t forget LRA!
To judge by the recent utterances of other Texans on TV, I’d say that LRA probably accounts for the lion’s share of Texas’ intellectual capacity. Woe be unto them if she ever moves out, because I think states have to maintain a minimum average IQ in order to receive Federal highway funding or something.
I’m very much in the minority here, as well. I’m not very scientifically-minded, but I try to be as educated as a musician can. I can tell you, I’m seriously considering moving to Colorado. Boulder, not Colorado Springs, lol. Texas politicians like Perry drive progressives like me and LRA away.
Where in TX Melody? LRA and I are both in Dallas.
I’m in Dallas, too. LRA and I have actually met and know each other in person.
That’s cool. I like my dear friend and fellow-Texan LRA! Us Texans gotz to stick 2gether! (believer and unbeliever alike, ha).
I hang out a lot at the main Half Price Bookstore in Dallas at NW Hwy and 75, am a ‘bibliophile’ of sorts, ha.
Really? I’m a book lover too, though I don’t go to HPB as often as I’d like. We’ll have to meet some time.
Have you heard from LRA lately? She hasn’t been commenting here for quite a while. I sure hope she’s fine.
Yeah, she’s just been extremely busy between teaching and studying. Or, as she put it on Facebook, buried under an avalanche of papers. :-P
Thank you Melody for your info. I’m glad LRA is OK :)
Aw, y’all!
Yes, it’s true. School has been kicking my a$$ lately. I’ve tried to keep up here and check in as often as possible. I’ve got to administer a final exam tomorrow and then grade them… all 86 essays (that the kids have 2 hours to write). After that, I’m off for a month.
:D
Hi LRA
I’m glad to see you are OK :D.
It felt a little strange not seeing any comments of yours around here lately.
I sure hope to read more of you again soon =).
If that’s a sentence.
Here are a couple of dictionary entries for you: succeed, secede.
But there is not many signs of grammar here.
Are not, even.
That always happens to grammar police, don’t it? :)
I know, right? I wrote a comment on a friend’s facebook page talking about how even English majors sometimes stick their foots in it…wait, did I say foots? I mean feet. Whatever. It’s acceptable in Cajun English. :-P
I think it’s pretty clear that was an intentional misspeeling.
And I would like to start all my sentences with conjuctions. But I was taught not to. Yet I do so in defiance. For I will not fall victim to obtuse conventions. Nor succumb to insane rants. So forgive me, those who feel otherwise. Or not.
Agreed. As a some-time English major, that drives me crazy. Either way, if in the unlikely event Texas should secede, I would leave it. I’m an American before a Texan, unlike certain rednecks here.
I’m an Earthling before I am a… Wait, what I am again!?
Argh!
Curses you, damn Martians!
I’m not a Christian, but I really hate it when ignorant people make fun of other ignorant people. I’m wondering if you folks who are so sure about dinosaurs and humans not coexisting have examined the excavations at Glen Rose, Texas at http://www.creationevidence.org/ where they have excavated, with news cameras rolling, dinosaur prints near a river which have human footprints right over the top of them, like they were running along behind the dinosaur. I know it is preposterous to many atheists, but maybe it’s because you have so bought into the evolutionary model you can’t think outside of that box. Keep your views, but test be willing to test these views by asking how these footprints could coexist in the same strata. I hate to make this comment, because I’m sure you’ll call me ignorant also, since that’s your main comeback.
“I’m not christian” links to 2 very christian websites.
I’m calling simple liar.
I know it is preposterous to many atheists,
Many Christians too. Even ‘Answers in Genesis’ has rejected the Paluxy Prints.
I skimmed the link he suggested and surprise! The museum (located in Texas of course) champions, as the centerpiece of their refutation of evolution, the work of Michael J. Behe … Y’all better be skeert now!
I’m not a Christian either!!! Who would have thunk it that two, random, Anti-Christians, such as ourselves, could find comfort in despising the existence of not only a religion but of one that is like a soiled pillow sheet filled with 6 day old, liquid cat feces, hung high and slowly dripping on the people who happen to stumble by. Hail Shazzbot!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Evidence_Museum
Lying for Jesus strikes again. I know where Glen Rose is, and you aren’t fooling anyone here.
Lying for Jesus is still lying.
Liar for Jesus is liar for Jesus…
Owww…. I didn’t notice Melody and Ty….
LOL, call-the-liar-pile up… ^_^
Hey, it’s cool. Great minds think alike. :-D
You were all beaten to it by TrickQuestion.
You from Texas, Kirby?
BTW, have you ever been outside US?
Do you realize that the only countries with a consistent and staunch rejection of evolution theory are US, Turkey and Iran?
YAY! You are in great company!
Until recently, we were also the only AAA rated economy on Earth that didn’t have socialized health care.
Until we dropped to AA. Now all of the AAA countries do.
Third world, here we come!
AA+ to be precise. And that’s just the short-term S&P rating.
But yeah I get your point.
That’s all?
Now, now. This here study was done by a university in Texas on Texans. Let’s not go feeling all superior until the other states turn in their stats. How many Oregonians think immunizations cause autism? How many Michiganders think up=North? There’s plenty of stupid to go around.
We Oregonians object! I have searched, and found very little stupid here. (Well, maybe there’s a tiny bit in Eastern Oregon . . . )
(oh, and also in Sam Adams’ office in Portland City Hall.)
Says the state with treacherous roads to nowhere that kill unsuspecting tourists.
Now that Texas type Christians have entered center stage. There are unintended consequences manifesting. Many people I know look at Muslims, gays, immigrants, children and womans issues with a for more liberal bias. We were never told Jesus was a free trade capitalist until these folks bullied their way into the spotlight. Or that giving young women cancer preventing vaccines was anti Christian. Without knowing it these willfully ignorant Christians are making reasonable people think about what they really believe and I for one would never cast my vote for anybody that relies on their religion to gain political office. If you are not qualified to lead I don’t care if you worship your cat.
All hail the Lord Fluffy, my cat!
You’re wrong, Jeff. The true God and Goddess are Garfield and Smokey. ;-)
Worship only the original media cat, Felix, you heathens.
The original media cat is Krazy Kat. Felix is a latecomer.
What about Mehitabel?
http://donmarquis.com/archy-and-mehitabel
The first publication of Krazy Kat predates the first publication of archy and mehitabel by three years- 1913 vs. 1916.
Although, one might also make an argument for the priority of Bast if one is willing to step outside contemporary Western culture.
How about Fritz the Cat?
I have to get out of this state…….
Humans and dinosaurs did, and still do, coexist. I had a burrito with shredded dinosaur last night. At least, if you define “dinosaur” cladistically.
Somehow, I doubt that more than a tiny number of poll respondents were thinking along those lines, though.
Good point. If you exclude birds (and there is no good taxonomic reason to do so), then the Dinosauria become a paraphyletic clade. The fossil and DNA evidence argue against this interpretation. It makes no more sense than defining the Vertebrata as “everything with a backbone, except for the mammals”.
My dinosaur was telling me, “Dinosaur, dinosaur Rawrrrawr!” just this morning!
He has since moved onto breakfast and throwing pellets all over the floor.
Are the Science and Discovery channels banned in TX? What do they tell the kids about the paleontologists that oil companies hire to find the little mollusc fossils that indicate the presence of oil?
That the oil companies and their puppet paleontologists are just fronts for godless liberal atheists.
No, but they might as well have, considering how many of my fellow Texans ignore the parts that don’t support YEC.
Cowboy hats to tight….Cutting off circulation to BRAIN!!
Permit me to suggest TFNinsider.org for your regular blog roll. The Texas Freedom Network routinely cover the political antics of the Texas State Board of Education.
I swear Santa Ana knew this would happen and deliberately lost Texas to improve the IQ in Mexico.