61% of Americans are retarded

[FluffyMcDeath]

61% of Americans are retarded - by about TWO HUNDRED YEARS!!!

Apparently a film about Darwin is too controversial for American audiences. The vacuous "Expelled" got distribution, mind you, they had to PAY for that - I've no idea if they ever made money on that piece of propaganda dreck (OK.. that one was largely produced by a Canadian - I guess we have our own retards).

But seriously - 39% "believe" in evolution? Evolution isn't something you "believe" in: you "get" it, and it isn't that difficult to get. Amazing how many people just can't.

 

[Robert]

Sad but not really surprising.

 

[redrumloa]

I wonder if 61% of Americans are "retarded" (your term not mine), or the people writing the article are. It would be interesting if the poll question really had anything to do with the theory of evolution, or Darwin the man himself. From your link.

Movieguide.org, an influential site that reviews films from a Christian perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as "a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder". His "half-baked theory" influenced Adolf Hitler and led to "atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering", the site stated.

Hmm, why oh why would they say that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin#Eugenics

Eugenics
For more details on this topic, see Eugenics.

Darwin was interested by his half-cousin Francis Galton's argument, introduced in 1865, that statistical analysis of heredity showed that moral and mental human traits could be inherited, and principles of animal breeding could apply to humans. In The Descent of Man Darwin noted that aiding the weak to survive and have families could lose the benefits of natural selection, but cautioned that withholding such aid would endanger the instinct of sympathy, "the noblest part of our nature", and factors such as education could be more important. When Galton suggested that publishing research could encourage intermarriage within a "caste" of "those who are naturally gifted", Darwin foresaw practical difficulties, and thought it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race", preferring to simply publicise the importance of inheritance and leave decisions to individuals.[152]

Galton named the field of study Eugenics in 1883, after Darwin’s death, and developed biometrics. Eugenics movements were widespread at a time when Darwin's natural selection was eclipsed by Mendelian genetics, and in some countries including the United States, compulsory sterilisation laws were imposed. Following the use of Eugenics in Nazi Germany it has been largely abandoned throughout the world.[V]

Oh gee, I wonder why people dislike the man :roll:

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

I wonder if 61% of Americans are "retarded" (your term not mine), or the people writing the article are. It would be interesting if the poll question really had anything to do with the theory of evolution, or Darwin the man himself. From your link.

Yes, retarded. Developmentally they are 200 years behind the advanced nations of the world. That's quite a lot retarded. Why did I say 61%? Because 39% said they "believe" in evolution ("believe" being a highly crappy word to use IMO).

Eugenics
For more details on this topic, see Eugenics.


Galton named the field of study Eugenics in 1883, after Darwin’s death, and developed biometrics. Eugenics movements were widespread at a time when Darwin's natural selection was eclipsed by Mendelian genetics, and in some countries including the United States, compulsory sterilisation laws were imposed. Following the use of Eugenics in Nazi Germany it has been largely abandoned throughout the world.[V]

Oh gee, I wonder why people dislike the man :roll:

You mean Galton? You might have the slimmest of cases that people dislike Galton if you could adequately demonstrate that many people actually know who Galton was. Darwin, on the other hand, did not advocate for eugenics as your quotes well demonstrate.

However, all that is a red herring because the fact that Galton advocated Eugenics based on his understanding of inheritance is no more evidence that Darwin was wrong than the horrific evil of the USA's double atom bombing of living human beings in Japan demonstrates that Einstein was wrong.

 

[Robert]

Oh gee, I wonder why people dislike the man :roll:

Which man?

If you mean Galton, I'd be astonished if most people had even heard of him.

If you mean Darwin, then the Eugenics argument is indeed retarded.