{"id":220,"date":"2007-06-08T06:51:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T10:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:30:44","slug":"another-poll-about-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Another poll about evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another poll featuring opinions on evolution<\/a> is trotted out to sell newspapers. As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned before<\/a>, these polls are useless and annoying. They do spotlight a stunning ignorance of basic, accepted science, but they have nothing of value to add to the overall discussion.<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re poorly done. Look at question 24: How familiar would you say you are with \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 evolution and creationism. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inane. Anyone who has read a screed against evolution or listened to TV preachers rail on about the evils of evolution might very well consider himself or herself familiar with evolution. But the truth is that they probably aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t familiar with it at all.<\/p>\n

Good quote:<\/p>\n

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Lawrence Krauss, a physicist and astronomer at Case Western Reserve University, said evolution is an important campaign issue. “Evolution happened whether or not a candidate believes in it,” he said, and presidents shouldn’t let “religious or ideological beliefs trump reality.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that evolution by itself is an important campaign issue, but a candidate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take on evolution can be a good indicator of whether the candidate will be an advocate for sound science. So far in the presidential debates and interviews, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another poll featuring opinions on evolution is trotted out to sell newspapers. As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned before, these polls are useless and annoying. They do spotlight a stunning ignorance of basic, accepted science, but they have nothing of value to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-3y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":881,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=881","url_meta":{"origin":220,"position":0},"title":"Evolution in the Miami Herald","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Miami Herald has a couple of stories about evolution. 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