"S888Wheel" wrote in message
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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 11/26/2004 1:18 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message
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From: "Trevor Wilson"
Date: 11/25/2004 12:38 PM Pacific Standard Time
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I know it is not scientific, nor even independently verified as
accurate.
Nevertheless, it provides an interesting starting point for discussion.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in657083.shtml


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au


And to think Mikey was taking issue with Michael Moore's claim that
Americans
are stupid. Clearly most are.

If being religious makes you stupid, then clearly most of the world is.

Most of the populations of most of the first world countries do not suffer
from
this mass stupidity over evolution and science in general.

Can you cite any evidence for this belief? Most of Europe is Christian, is
it not? Do they not believe in creationism? The rest of the world is
pretty much either Muslim, Budist, or Hindu, all of which have some sort of
creation myth do they not?

It isn't about
religion it is about rational thought.

For me religion is the opposite of rational thought.

Clearly rational thought is painfully
lacking in America.

Depends on what you're talking about. If you mean as it pertains to
allowing people to live their lives and make a living, I'd say we're doing
well. Regarding political discourse, not so much.

That should be cause for concern. It also seems to confirm
that which you were so upset about. Looks like Michael Moore pegged our
nation's people. Why were you so upset about it?

I'm not upset by that in and of itself. It's the sneering, smarmy, way he
looks down his nose at those who don't buy his jaundiced views. It's also
his dishonesty. If what he believes is true he should be able to make his
case much more honestly, with out the editing. I've not read any objective
critique of his work that finds his methods to honest or even making a
pretense at objectivity.

I think he's a prefect example of a lack of rational thought.