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What is an Articulate Informed Creationist

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Straggler
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08-04-2007 9:59 AM 		Reply to: Message 91 by Percy
08-04-2007 8:19 AM

But in the sociocultural context where it counts evolution has been discredited and creationism has won
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Is that true? I am slightly astounded. I have no statistics but I am sure that this is not true for the Western world outside of the U.S and I am fairly dismayed to hear that this appears to be the case in the U.S.
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Do you think that this is a uniquely American phenomenon and if so why is it that the U.S in particular is prone to such thinking?
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Straggler
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08-04-2007 8:34 PM 		Reply to: Message 99 by Chiroptera
08-04-2007 2:38 PM

Seriously Though
Actually, the US has never been very prone to thinking.
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Many of the Founding Fathers were brilliant intellectuals, but that was pretty much the last time intellectual thought had any place in the public discourse.
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LoL A bit of yank self-deprecating humour will always go down well over here.
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Seriously though - I cannot think of another western democracy where the leader of the country could be a fundamentalist creationist!!
What is it about the U.S that makes this possible as compared to other comparable nations?
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