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The level of public acceptance of evolution in the United States is now solidly above the halfway mark, according to a new study based on a series of national public opinion surveys conducted over the last 35 years. "From 1985 to 2010, there was a statistical dead heat between acceptance and...

... why is it you guys have the highest incarceration rate in the world? And especially when it comes to a lot of the supposed freedom loving Southern states (e.g. Texas) which have higher than average incarceration rate relative to the U.S. as a whole...

Dunning-Kruger effects refers to a person's inability to self-assess their own skill level. In particular, people at the low end of skills tend to overestimate their own abilities. I'm wondering if there is something similar with respect to reality and self-awareness of connection to reality...

New Zealand has one of the best records against COVID-19 on the planet. Relatively few cases (per capita) and very few deaths. They opted for strict lockdown procedures in wake of the virus, and have done a remarkable job containing it as a result. Early in the pandemic, anti-lockdown advocates...

Occasionally the claim comes up that the universe was somehow invented entirely for the benefit of the human race: a bunch of teeny-tiny humans squirreled away on a teeny-tiny planet in a corner of a single galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies. For point of reference, the current size...

The United States has reached another grim milestone in its fight against the devastating Covid-19 pandemic: 1 in 500 Americans have died from coronavirus since the nation's first reported infection. As of Tuesday night, 663,913 people in the US have died of Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins...

Note that I'm referring to the Christian Bible in this instance. Simple question for Americans on this forum: if given the option, would you support overturning the existing U.S. Constitution and writing a new one on the based on the Christian Bible? I've divided the answers into Christians...

...that has turned out to be explicitly and unambiguously true? And by "explicitly and unambiguously true" I mean something where the prediction or claim was clearly defined and articulated in a precise fashion. IOW, something which was NOT so vague as to be otherwise interpreted in multiple...

Livestream from yesterday from Creation Myths (creationism debunking channel run by evolutionary biologist Dan Cardinale). The thesis of the stream is the idea that creationist organizations (e.g. professional creationists) have spent decades training their followers to distrust science and...

Per the Monroe Journal, it looks like Hovind is in legal trouble again: Home More details here: Kent Hovind, controversial creationist preacher known as ‘Dr. Dino,’ arrested in domestic assault case A controversial Alabama creationist preacher who recently sued the federal government for...

The rate of Covid-19 vaccinations in the United States continues to rise, a positive sign amid skyrocketing cases and hospitalizations after weeks of lagging inoculations. US vaccination rates are rising, even in least-vaccinated Southern states The US Centers for Disease Control and...

From Google Trends, showing interest in subjects by way of Google searches over time. Note that these results are for the United States only. I'm not sure if including other countries might skew the results, since outside of the U.S. creationism/ID generally doesn't have as large a presence...

Thought this was relevant given all the fear-mongering about mandatory vaccinations and the world turning into 1930s Nazi Germany (a comparison I've seen numerous folks making here). Turns out the idea of mandatory vaccinations goes back over a century. From the very start of the organized...

COVID-19 linked to 'significant' drop in intelligence: research Individuals who recovered from COVID-19, including those who no longer had symptoms, exhibited significant “cognitive deficits,” according to a large study out of the U.K. ... The cognitive deficits were particularly pronounced...

Turns out even monkeys don't like those banana strings:

Canada’s 2nd dose vaccinations surpass U.S. as Americans grapple with COVID-19 surge - National | Globalnews.ca The percentage of Canadians who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has for the first time surpassed the United States. As of the afternoon of July 17, Canada had vaccinated...

This question is directed at creationists ONLY. For the purpose of the thread, I am defining a creationist as one who rejects common ancestry of species instead favoring the creation of individual organisms not sharing common ancestry. My question is simply how you would characterize the...

Map shows how almost all the US counties where COVID-19 is surging have vaccination rates below 40% The overwhelming majority of counties where COVID-19 cases are surging have low vaccination rates, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Speaking at a...

For the purpose of the poll, I'm defining creationists to be anyone that rejects evolutionary biology for the diversification of species in favor of some form of creation. Non-creationists are those who accept evolutionary biology for the diversification of species. Whether one is a theist or...

The fall of man is often cited by creationists are the point which death entered the world, organisms began changing, etc. My question is how did the fall specifically affect biological organisms causing them to change? Was this change supernatural in nature? Were their deliberate, creative...