Belief in Evolution versus National Wealth

TheEndsOfInvention · 2012-09-16T15:49:13+00:00

TIL I should move to Iceland.

schvince · 2012-09-16T18:03:23+00:00

if we seperate Bavaria from Germany, we probably would be over 80%

veryoldfart · 2012-09-16T16:42:21+00:00

If you erase the black line that was drawn to fool the eye, there is only a slight correlation between between the two, with Turkey and the USA being out liers.

litteringAnd____ · 2012-09-16T15:04:20+00:00

Where does Canada fit in?

magicmagininja · 2012-09-16T15:44:52+00:00

only 39% of USers believe evolution? really

Prezombie · 2012-09-16T08:22:02-07:00

Turkey is practically Middle easten demographically, and the USA is widely diverse in education standards re evolution. Remove Muslim governed Turkey, refit the best fit line, and then place each US state as a seperate body, and the states would blend right into the crowd.

ZioTron · 2012-09-16T16:31:36+00:00

I'm not sure to fully get the meaning of the chart, if anybody can enlight me with a detailed description that would be great.

However, I can say that for what I understand, USA has a higher percertage of people believing in creationism than other countries have, even in the wealthy (therefore supposely more educated) part of the population.

Actuallly USA situation appears strange to a foreigner. I live in a fully catholic country, but evolution is not on discussion...

The pope himself support evolution... o.O"

I always I admired the church way to get around things anyway...

you see their most powerful answer is: "God talks to men only in terms that they can understand, that's the why science can differ from God's word"

In this way they can face every science discovery..

But I'm talking too much now, you? what do you have to say?

TL:DR As a foreigner, USA population surprise me for their strong denial of science efforts of understanding the world...

Wirenutt · 2012-09-16T17:05:11+00:00

Good grief, I live in the US in upstate NY, and right now I want to move to the UK. I am ashamed of the anti-intellectualism of my country.

Let people believe in whatever god they want, but treat it like your dick; be proud of it, use it whenever it makes you feel good, but don't be waving it around in public, and for fuck's sake, don't force it on people who don't want it.

Slattz · 2012-09-16T17:17:13+00:00

Wouldn't it be better to measure quality of life rather than GDP per Capita?

From talking to several people who have lived in the US and Europe I understand that would be a more equitable measurement.

Crazeeman · 2012-09-16T11:11:16-07:00

as usual, Canada is skipped over. Thanks.

samaey · 2012-09-16T18:34:29+00:00

I would have thought that Belgium would be well in the 90%, like I would have expected for all the other European nations. Well I guess it's because of all the old people here.

Altiondsols · 2012-09-16T18:48:36+00:00

Of all the things I have learned from r/atheism, the one that sticks the most is that Norway is a wonderful place to be.

5thKeetle · 2012-09-16T19:07:41+00:00

Actually the statistics are mostly wrong, because most Lithuanians actually do believe in evoliution, I don't know from what source this was made from.

briancb · 2012-09-16T19:43:33+00:00

I thought Norway would be much higher in terms of the amount of people who believe in evolution (at least > 80% of the population would be my initial guess). Hmmm. Research must be done into this....

Armen138 · 2012-09-16T20:35:10+00:00

not sure I understand the phrase "belief in Evolution". Do you believe 2 and 2 make 4?

I_throw_pinecones · 2012-09-16T20:55:43+00:00

I actually don't believe that data is valid. Only 2/3 of my homecounty ( Germany ) believe in evolution? Nu-uh mister.

ReposterBot · 2012-09-16T21:12:21+00:00

I wouldn't write your thesis on that that fit.

SomeGamerKid · 2012-09-16T14:51:52-07:00

ONLY 40 PERCENT?!?! Hey Canada, is there any room for me?

Aratix · 2012-09-16T22:08:18+00:00

Ho..lee...shit. 60% of us Americans don't believe in evolution? I knew it was bad but, this bad?

david71119 · 2012-09-16T23:01:23+00:00

I don't think this graph get's the main message across... I think everyone knows this, but as 'cool' as it would be for us atheists to use this as an argument, it's not very well like this, see it this way:

If country is rich and good life quality -> means good education

If country is rich/poor and has bad life quality -> means bad education

&

When education is bad -> there are more religious people

That's why the countries that are poor/bad quality of life match with those that have a bad education, and because they have bad education they are more religious. Simple as that.

magnetar5135 · 2012-09-16T23:21:34+00:00

Once again, Norway kicks ass. If only they knew how jealous I am of them.

Conkernog · 2012-09-16T16:22:49-07:00

I'm very very suspect about these figures. Ireland seems to be only hovering a bit above 60% - The first time I found out that there were evolution deniers was when I started redditing, never heard anyone contest it before.

clopensets · 2012-09-16T17:23:14-07:00

but... that means Norway is statistically more creationist than its worth!

joeshmoe16 · 2012-09-17T01:39:16+00:00

The U.S doesn't believe in staying on the graph.

Phlexonance · 2012-09-17T01:51:27+00:00

I don't like how the european countries are split up (as it should be) but the USA isn't split up by states

audioeric · 2012-09-16T19:00:57-07:00

You forgot Czechoslovakia while you were apologizing for America! Liberal scum!

Eksos · 2012-09-17T02:24:47+00:00

why the hell is Norway so low? Why the hell are so many of the others so low??

Nokia_Bricks · 2012-09-17T02:32:58+00:00

I may be nitpicking, but "understanding" would be a better word than "belief".

Lord69 · 2012-09-17T04:12:20+00:00

WHERE IS CANADA?

Wauughlord · 2012-09-17T06:15:44+00:00

Just for those who wanted to know, myself included, Australia sits at 71% who agree with evolution (and think that it's still occuring) as of 2010, and our GDP per capita (PPP adjusted) is $40,800; according to the same website.

This puts us (Australia) pretty much at the tail of the 'g' in "United Kingdom", however, this is using data four years younger than the rest of the data - and things can change a lot in that amount of time.

potsmoker420 · 2012-09-16T15:02:39-07:00

stop using "belief in evolution"

Riverboater1 · 2012-09-16T08:22:53-07:00

THE USA IS NOT THE AMERICAS


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