I Have Discovered America's REAL Problem.

It's not the war in Iraq (for you war-pussies and hippies) and it's not our President (or lack of one). It's this one single, startling fact:

87 percent of all Americans believe that humans did not evolve according to Darwin.
Source: CBS Poll, Nov. 18-21, 2004


I read this, and I seriously said out loud, "DAMN!", because that means that 87 percent of all Americans are being horribly misinformed, lied to, and mentally raped. I won't go into heavy detail (or maybe I will), but belief in religion is like belief in Santa himself; there's no proof, only faith (which is defined as belief without conviction or evidence).

(Note: If you haven't noticed by my usage of Jesus as my old screen name that I am NOT religious, you are a dumbass.)

On top of this, not only do the whopping majority of people not believe that science defines nature and the world around us, but this shit is being shoveled down our throats, too! What with all the people who want "Intelligent Design" taught in schools, there's even public funds being wasted into propagandating this bullshit in MUSEUMS. There's a Creationist museum I read about in an article by Bruno Maddox (no relation to the all-around ass-stomper Maddox, but still damned funny) that advertises that the world was created by God (because it's completely inconceivable that we exist because the Big Bang began the universe, elements condensed into gases, then into stars, then into planets, and then the planet was fertilized with ancient organic material which evolved into the first microorganisms that evolved over the course of some few BILLION years, which gradually changed into the species that inhabit the Earth now).

As for all the undiscovered parts of the story (Like, what drove the Big Bang to occur?), no religious person in the world can explain it, so they prefer to explain how an omnipotent being created everything in the universe so they don't have to formulate something intelligent-sounding.

But this is where science defeats religion: Science attempts to explain things, while religion does not; it prefers to use the cop-out of "some guy decided to make everything how it is now, so you can't argue with that, or he won't like you."

If 87 percent of all Americans think that either God created humans as they are now or that God played a role in creating humans, then I am smarter than 87 percent of all Americans. And if some high-school kid who plays Halo in his free time is smarter than 87 percent of Americans, then I think America has a problem. Kind of like a shotgun blast in the face from point-blank is a problem.