Re: Using Kermit-95 to emulate a VT320

In article <i14bg0$tv5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 2010-07-08 12:00, George Cook wrote:

In article<4c3582a2$0$10348$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

It is just very strange to see people who used to be normal go through
something which causes them to adopt 15th century thinking that rejects
any science which they THINK contradicts the bible.

Why is it you think that 1% to 3% of the US population has that much
control when none of the right wing media ever mention anything even
remotely related to religion?

Those figures seems quite low, doesn't they ?
Or are the figures in this article *that* wrong ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism

From that article (and from references in the article) :

God created man in present form : 45 %
Man developed, with God guiding : 38 %
Man developed, but God had no part in process : 13 %
Other/No opinion : 4 %

Where does the 1-3 % mentioned belong in this scenario ?

I, perhaps incorrectly, assumed we were discussing the type of
people who, for example, actively oppose the teaching of evolution.
The types who refuse to let their children attend public schools
so that they won't be taught evolution. That number is quite
small as a percentage of the population; I believe well under 3%,
perhaps under 1%. Even 1% would still be 3 million people who
tend to be very vocal and active in their beliefs.

The polls in that article are all over the place. For example,
70% of the US public believes that evolution is compatible with
a belief in God. Look at the polls in Canada and the UK. 22%
of Canadians believe "that God created humans in their present
form within the last 10,000 years." In the UK 39% chose
creationism or intelligent design, and 48% chose evolution as
the origin of life. Even in Sweden, over 15% don't believe
in evolution.


George Cook
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