Bill Nye vs Ken Ham
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@solo said:
Wow! just wow.
1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Orbits the Sun. Yes, Really.
Another way of looking at it might be that 1 in 4 Americans don't care about such facts!
This is more,
Americans surveyed: misunderstood, misrepresented or ignorant?
"In 2003, a US Strategic Task Force of Education Abroad report concluded that America’s ignorance of the outside world was so great as to constitute a threat to national security"
Americans surveyed: misunderstood, misrepresented or ignorant?
Following the results of the poll suggesting a quarter of Americans do not know the Earth circles the Sun, we look at some other examples of surprising US survey results
The Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Then again, maybe they subscribe to, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
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lol, south pole exploration must be some fun in that version of the world...
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@unknownuser said:
Another way of looking at it might be that 1 in 4 Americans don't care about such facts!
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
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@solo said:
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
True !
The pig also doesn't care of that, but only of its meal... but then, it gets slaughtered.
Doesn't mater if it doesn't help you to get your next-day meal, there are some common-sense things that anyone who has access to basic education should know. Otherwise one is purely ignorant and from my part he should be made sausages
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@derei said:
@solo said:
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
True !
The pig also doesn't care of that, but only of its meal... but then, it gets slaughtered.
Doesn't mater if it doesn't help you to get your next-day meal, there are some common-sense things that anyone who has access to basic education should know. Otherwise one is purely ignorant and from my part he should be made sausages
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@solo said:
@unknownuser said:
Another way of looking at it might be that 1 in 4 Americans don't care about such facts!
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
I thought it was 365 1/4 days.
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A year is 365.24 days. Or 8,765 hours, or 526,000 minutes, or 31.6 million seconds. The tricky one is the number of days. Because the earth year doesn't work out to exactly 365 days, we have the leap year.
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According to a report on Huffington Post, the Nye-Ham debate has spurred enough interest for Ham to raise money to proceed with his Noah's Ark creation.
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Oh well, good for him. I saw a tv programme on Ham's 'museum' a few years ago -thoroughly entertaining stuff.
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At least the money is going to comedy and not to buying another politician.
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