Comments on: The girls are all right, they accept human evolution

By: Half Sigma

Half Sigma — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:24:36 +0000

Women are turning from Christianity to the new religion of “green” and Gaia. So they believe in evolution, but also believe that the Planet is alive and thinking, and other nonsense.

By: bioIgnoramus

bioIgnoramus — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:43:31 +0000

This furriner finds that the Parisian bourgeoise’s desire to be chic adds to the pleasure of visiting Paris; even the Milanese’s sharp suiting can afford some pleasure to this visitor, but the adopted dimwittedness of American Christians in the matter of evolution provokes only derision. How can I put this? The bible does not report Jesus’ views on Darwin, you idiots!

By: Caledonian

Caledonian — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:14:29 +0000

To furriners, it’s a mystery why becoming more “religious” should imply that you become less accepting of evolution. Why is American Christianity so inane?

You might as well ask why male peacocks have such extraordinary and fitness-costly plumage. It’s a social signal, all the more effective because it makes the holder of the disbelief contrast with the rest of society.

Other societies have their own bugbears, sacred cows, and social signals. My intuition is that they’re as ridiculous to Americans as Americans’ are to foreigners.

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:09:34 +0000

So is there any data on the issue in the older cohorts from the past that show their positions are roughly stable?

not enough data on evolution, but not, people don’t become that much more religious.

By: bioIgnoramus

bioIgnoramus — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:56:17 +0000

To furriners, it’s a mystery why becoming more “religious” should imply that you become less accepting of evolution. Why is American Christianity so inane?

By: Divalent

Divalent — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:44:29 +0000

Can you be sure that the difference in older age groups is not due to a decline in acceptance of evolution as time goes by? By saying that, I’m implying (without data to suggest it) that women become more religious (or more fundamentalist) as they get past 30.

So is there any data on the issue in the older cohorts from the past that show their positions are roughly stable?

By: abb3w

abb3w — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:03:47 +0000

Could this be a result of the historical science (and math) education gap between the sexes, and contemporary closing (but not elimination) of the gap?

By: bioIgnoramus

bioIgnoramus — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:43:17 +0000

Anyone who holds a newborn knows that we are all descended either from apes or from Winston Churchill. The parsimonious interpretation is that we are all descended from apes and that Winston Churchill was too. I rest my case.

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