Conservatives Losing Trust in Science, Study Finds

[Lucrum]

Quote from Trader666:

Conservatives aren't losing trust in science, they're losing trust in liberal "scientists" who lack integrity.

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I love and admire science. It's the unproven speculation and theories put forth as fact I have a problem with.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from futurecurrents:

Politically conservative Americans have lost trust in science over the last 40 years while moderates and liberals have remained constant in the stock they put in the scientific community, a new study finds.
The most educated conservatives have slipped the most, according to the research set to appear in the April issue of the journal American Sociological Review. The change in conservative attitudes likely has to do both with changes in the conservative movement and with changes in science's role in society, said study author Gordon Gaulet, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
"There's been this need to cultivate conservative ideas in reaction to what is perceived as mainstream culture, which a lot of conservatives would suggest is biased toward secular liberalism," Gaulet told LiveScience. "Part of what being a conservative means is looking for alternatives for mainstream ideas and bases of knowledge, and science and the media are those." [Life's Extremes: Democrats & Republicans]

http://news.yahoo.com/conservatives-losing-trust-science-study-finds-114401347.html

its because science is falsifying their god. they hate it.

the church i went to when faced with a case of science disagreeing with the bible would tell the children that "scientists are in a vast conspiricy to deny god". how many of those kids do you think will go on to learn anything about science?

 

[377OHMS]

Quote from Free Thinker:

its because science is falsifying their god. they hate it.

the church i went to when faced with a case of science disagreeing with the bible would tell the children that "scientists are in a vast conspiricy to deny god". how many of those kids do you think will go on to learn anything about science?

Understand your hatred of religion. If I had to drive a truck for a living I would hate God too.

 

[Brass]

Quote from 377OHMS:

...bullshit...propaganda...hater.

Three little words...and they say so much about you.

 

[377OHMS]

Quote from Brass:

Three little words...and they say so much about you.

There is maybe 4 people in here who share your views with the overwhelming majority despising you. I guess I'm just not concerned about your opinion.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from 377OHMS:

There is maybe 4 people in here who share your views with the overwhelming majority despising you. I guess I'm just not concerned about your opinion.

Four? You think it's that many? LOL

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

If I doubt it, it probably isn't science.

 

[peilthetraveler]

Quote from Free Thinker:

its because science is falsifying their god. they hate it.

the church i went to when faced with a case of science disagreeing with the bible would tell the children that "scientists are in a vast conspiricy to deny god". how many of those kids do you think will go on to learn anything about science?

They shouldnt have done that. They should've been more specific. ATHEIST scientists are in a vast conspiracy to deny God. Take you for example. You spend a great deal of your day trying to convince us there is no God by "conspiring" with atheist websites.


I'm all for the science of biology, physical and social sciences. Generally they give some good information. Its when they go into the historical side where they have no proof, that I dont like.

If someone shows me a picture of a cell, and all the parts, I have no reason to doubt it because its an observable event. But when you go tell me "Ok, 100 million years ago this cell looked totally different and did this and that and changed this way" then I'm calling bullshit on you.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from peilthetraveler:

But when you go tell me "Ok, 100 million years ago this cell looked totally different and did this and that and changed this way" then I'm calling bullshit on you.

because i read in a book written by ignorant superstitions sheep herders that an invisible man in the sky did it by magic.


"Doesn't it seem odd that the "evidence for the existence of god" is completely hidden from the greatest human minds who spend their professional lives exploring how the universe functions, yet it is perfectly clear to uneducated simpletons who have access to internet-linked terminals? i wonder if it bothers the religious that atheists have brilliant physicists, biologists, mathematicians arguing for the atheist side, while they have, really, no one of credible intelligence."

 

[jficquette]

Quote from futurecurrents:

Politically conservative Americans have lost trust in science over the last 40 years while moderates and liberals have remained constant in the stock they put in the scientific community, a new study finds.
The most educated conservatives have slipped the most, according to the research set to appear in the April issue of the journal American Sociological Review. The change in conservative attitudes likely has to do both with changes in the conservative movement and with changes in science's role in society, said study author Gordon Gaulet, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
"There's been this need to cultivate conservative ideas in reaction to what is perceived as mainstream culture, which a lot of conservatives would suggest is biased toward secular liberalism," Gaulet told LiveScience. "Part of what being a conservative means is looking for alternatives for mainstream ideas and bases of knowledge, and science and the media are those." [Life's Extremes: Democrats & Republicans]

http://news.yahoo.com/conservatives-losing-trust-science-study-finds-114401347.html

Liberals are the only ones that go ape shit over genetically modified food.

I believe the scientists at Monsanto before I would believe the grant grubbing scientists at the UN.