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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Thank heavens for Turkey
This figure represents what portion of each industrialized country's population accepts evolution.
 This reminds me of a saying I hear from our contributor born in Georgia, I believe it's "thank God for Alabama" or some such thing, the humor being that if it weren't for Alabama Georgia would be dead last in every measure of progress. Well, in America I think it's thank god for Turkey. If they weren't included as an industrialized nation we'd be toast, and I don't think this is the first time the US has enjoyed an "Alabama" effect from Turkey, I believe in the UN healthcare rankings and progressive income taxation we're nearly dead last but for Turkey. I love this statement from the study author: "American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalist, which is why Turkey and we are so close," said study co-author Jon Miller of Michigan State University. Ha! He's going to get some hate mail for that one (and about half a dozen other statements in his paper). Via Stranger Fruit, based on this paper in Science: Jon D. Miller, Eugenie C. Scott, and Shinji Okamoto (2006) "Public Acceptance of Evolution" Science Aug 11 2006: 765-766. |
3 Comments:
I'd be more interested in that list if it didn't omit so many nations, some of which are at least as industrialized as Cyprus. Australia? New Zealand? Um, Canada?
You're preaching to the choir, so to speak, but that chart looks very selective, especially with most of the Catholic and Muslim nations conveniently left out. Brazil and Saudi Arabia may not be as industrialized as the U.S. or Japan, but they're certainly on par with Croatia.
Of course, I *am* from Alabama, so what do I know? Thank heavens for Mississippi...
1:19 AM, August 13, 2006
And in Mississippi, so I'm told, it's "thank God for Arkansas." I'm not sure where it goes from there.
12:00 PM, August 14, 2006
Ha!
Anyway, I think he was limited by available survey data. I doubt canada would score any lower than us though, and from previous reports from Science on South America, the scientists down there say they only have a problem with creationists when Americans visit to pester them. It's not the Catholics that are the problem, for once.
So don't worry, I don't think it's skewed. And if we have to go to the Muslim world to look good for something, that's an even worse sign.
1:02 AM, August 15, 2006
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