tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post5931009822194613411..comments2023-06-15T11:59:39.572-04:00Comments on DYVERS: When Did It Become Okay to be Ignorant?Dyvershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-33218593508251603192014-03-12T13:32:25.085-04:002014-03-12T13:32:25.085-04:00Jeremy, mikemonaco is preaching truth to you right...Jeremy, mikemonaco is preaching truth to you right now. Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-61041532177511861212014-03-12T13:30:22.016-04:002014-03-12T13:30:22.016-04:00Mark Twain is not folksy. Mark Twain is singularly...Mark Twain is not folksy. Mark Twain is singularly the greatest American author. His books range from small town adventures, like Tom Sawyer, to amazing polemics against slavery (Huckfinn), to proselytizing of the American way of life (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court). He's written as many books that have stood the test of time as Dickens. You can call him many things, but Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-34472083641243205262014-03-12T06:55:44.760-04:002014-03-12T06:55:44.760-04:00Jeremy -- maybe. In my country (the US) there was...Jeremy -- maybe. In my country (the US) there was a poll (run by Gallup, a respected polling firm) that found that about half of Americans believe God created humans in in the last 10000 years. Some portion of them believe the earth is older, and even that animals evolved. So yeah, "young earth creationists" may number fewer, but that's 1/2 of Americans who are ignorant about Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-53403970643626477652014-03-11T22:14:25.756-04:002014-03-11T22:14:25.756-04:00That 6000 year old stuff is a perfect example of a...That 6000 year old stuff is a perfect example of a straw man argument.<br /><br />A very tiny amount of people believe it, yet somehow all Christians (but never Muslims or other religions) are tarred with it and called ignorant.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06440605975564288373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-17803043962687480992014-03-11T20:25:02.169-04:002014-03-11T20:25:02.169-04:00Folks that think the earth is only 6,000 years old...Folks that think the earth is only 6,000 years old, or the dinosaurs didn't get seats on Noah's ark dismissing scientfic answers as just another matter of belief they can choose seldom have difficulty watching t.v.,driving over a suspension bridge, or making a phone call. Somehow they don't understand: all that is science too and they don't have to "believe" in them at JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-58563224596237031262014-03-11T18:13:04.296-04:002014-03-11T18:13:04.296-04:00Horse shit right back at you. I point to the folks...Horse shit right back at you. I point to the folksy careers of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, and the good-ol-boy careers of generations of southern politicians. I reference "Anti-intellectualism in American Life" a book by Richard Hofstadter published in the 1960s (well before President Reagan and MTV). And lets not forgot the common Western trope of the dandified Easterner vs the Trail StevenWarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12697680166430879676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-20026145553202882502014-03-11T13:09:17.113-04:002014-03-11T13:09:17.113-04:00That's really quite an elegant way to describe...That's really quite an elegant way to describe the situation. Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-79298832445233149832014-03-11T12:46:00.478-04:002014-03-11T12:46:00.478-04:00Not to mention the failure of basic education to d...Not to mention the failure of basic education to differentiate between a scientific Theory (like gravity) and a general "theory" (as in "I have a theory as to how Game of Thrones will end"). <br /><br />But, there has always been a divide between pre-millennial religious belief in America, and post-millennial belief. One maintains that Christ will arrive at any moment and chimericalrealmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561091456312911472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-72497394623604592252014-03-11T12:37:32.472-04:002014-03-11T12:37:32.472-04:00Horse shit.
America has a long standing traditio...Horse shit. <br /><br />America has a long standing tradition of learning and higher thought. We've prided ourselves over the past two centuries of leading the the world intellectually and morally (even when both have been over inflated in our own minds). It's only the wastrels and scoundrels who have slurred "I ain't much for book learnin'" and they have been vilified Dyvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032957275132817602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124770754805827894.post-1199441693970821792014-03-11T12:30:13.719-04:002014-03-11T12:30:13.719-04:00American culture has always displayed a populist a...American culture has always displayed a populist anti-intellectual "I ain't much for book learnin' " steam of thought. Modern Media has just intensified it, and made it seem all pervasive, which I do not believe it really is. At least I hope not.StevenWarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12697680166430879676noreply@blogger.com