Sunday, May 25, 2014

The Vulnerable

  In February we learned that 1 in 4 Americans doesn't know Earth circles sun. I have to admit that I found this news to be surprising. That's a significant number of people, perfectly in line with the number of people who supported GW Bush to the bitter end of his disastrous presidency. I have come to think of this group as being vulnerable. They are vulnerable to mythological understandings and unfounded emotional distortions of how our world functions. If one does not even understand that the Earth circles the Sun, how could one possibly understand a complex problem like global warming.

  The Creation Museum in Kentucky is a crown jewel in that 1 in 4 world view. The museum has just unveiled an Allosaurus Exhibit claiming that the major scientific relic is evidence of Noah's flood which according to the museum's brain trust occurred 4,300 years ago. The relic is allegedly a unique and superlative specimen and truly deserves to be in the hands of scientists rather than the Creation Museum.

NY Post: Dinosaur bones prove creationism right, man says
Keeping with its Bible-themed approach, the Creation Museum says the dinosaur died in a worldwide flood about 4,300 years ago. However, scientists say the last dinosaurs roamed the earth more than 60 million years ago.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

LOL! There should be a special category for Bibliophile / Climitedenier in the American Psychological Societies listings of serious mental disorders, because these people are NUCKING FUTZ !! That they've totally taken over the GOP is not funny either anymore since this whole crowd is running our country into the ground at flank speed.

Jim Sande said...

I have a lot of questions here. For example - let's say 1 in 4 does not know the Earth revolves around the Sun. Are these people in fact all in the conservative or Tea Party GOP? How many of these people also believe in "creationism", how many are global warming deniers. What I'm trying to get at is how many of the cross complications go together - are people that deny global warming also in the GOP, also creationists, also don't know the Earth revolves around the Sun. I'm hoping they are all the same lot otherwise we are talking about a substantial number say 50% or 1 in 2 that have these detrimental vulnerabilities.

Jim Sande said...

I can't explain the behavior - is it purely taking the political side, being a sheeple, is it low IQ, inability to think and reason, is it mental health, too depressed to notice. Is it familial - passed down from generation to generation. How does this happen?