{"id":1122,"date":"2012-06-19T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T12:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2012-06-19T12:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T12:19:29","slug":"wow-15-of-americans-believe-in-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/19\/wow-15-of-americans-believe-in-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow!  15% of Americans believe in Evolution!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As America grows more polarized, conservatives increasingly reject science and rational thought<br \/>\nThe Tea Party has intensified social pressure on conservative-leaning Americans to shun science and academia<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/18\/as_america_grows_more_polarized_conservatives_increasingly_reject_science_and_rational_thought\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/18\/as_america_grows_more_polarized_conservatives_increasingly_reject_science_and_rational_thought\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had no idea it was this bad.  I knew our country was turning against science, but I naively presumed that most of the population believed in evolution.  When I read reports that &#8220;46 percent of the population&#8221; believed in creation, I thought that the remaining 54% therefore believed in evolution.  It turns out that I am the dummy in this case and have engaged in a huge logical fallacy.  Instead, some 85% of our population does not believe in evolution, thus I am in a tiny minority even though the article states that the number of people believing evolution has &#8220;been a steady rise&#8221; to 15%.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I have really been lying to myself all these years.  People really are as stupid as I complain about on my bad days.  It is no wonder that our political situation is so thoroughly fucked up, how can you possibly develop critical thinking skills if you start your thinking process that evolution is a farce?<\/p>\n<p>It is going to take me a while to adjust to this &#8216;new&#8217; paradigm.  Emigration is really starting to look like the only viable future for me.  Too bad my wife doesn&#8217;t agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As America grows more polarized, conservatives increasingly reject science and rational thought The Tea Party has intensified social pressure on conservative-leaning Americans to shun science and academia http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/18\/as_america_grows_more_polarized_conservatives_increasingly_reject_science_and_rational_thought\/ I had no idea it was this bad. I knew our country was turning against science, but I naively presumed that most of the population believed in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/19\/wow-15-of-americans-believe-in-evolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wow!  15% of Americans believe in Evolution!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}