From a native Texan: Texas consistently ranks 48th-49th in most rankings regarding the situation of poor people. The original State motto was "The Friendship State". Somewhere along the way, the motto was changed to " Screw the Poor." The reason our kids are so ignorant is, number 1, we aren't willing to pay for a top=notch education. There is a river of money pouring out of our country paying for our empire. Look at Cost of War web-site. We're talkin $3,000 per SECOND.

Also, religious fundamentalists, on a mission from God, have taken-over most school boards. Science is voodoo. Psychiatrists and mental health professionals might find out what goes on at bedtime.

Yankees might take our kids away and force them to lie about us.

I was born here, but my citizenship was revoked in '77 'cause I forgot the Alamo. (thanx to Woody Allen).

One time at a summer job as a prison guard, I got into a heated discussion on science with my devout Moslem roommate. He was insisting " The sun is NOT a star!" Billy Bob comes walking down the hall. I say" Billy Bob, tell Abdul the sun is a star."

Billy Bob replies, "No, I don't think the sun is a star."

So bear with us native Texans, we have an uphill climb.

Originally posted by harry ashburn
From a native Texan: Texas consistently ranks 48th-49th in most rankings regarding the situation of poor people. The original State motto was "The Friendship State". Somewhere along the way, the motto was changed to " Screw the Poor." The reason our kids are so ignorant is, number 1, we aren't willing to pay for a top=notch education. There is a river of money pouring out of our country paying for our empire. Look at Cost of War web-site. We're talkin $3,000 per SECOND.

It does not help that illegal trespassers are using our school system.

Neither does the no child left behind BS or standardized testing for that matter.

Also, religious fundamentalists, on a mission from God, have taken-over most school boards. Science is voodoo. Psychiatrists and mental health professionals might find out what goes on at bedtime.

Evolution is not science. Sorry to burst your bubble. Actually . . . I am not really sorry.

Yankees might take our kids away and force them to lie about us.

I was born here, but my citizenship was revoked in '77 'cause I forgot the Alamo. (thanx to Woody Allen).

One time at a summer job as a prison guard, I got into a heated discussion on science with my devout Moslem roommate. He was insisting " The sun is NOT a star!" Billy Bob comes walking down the hall. I say" Billy Bob, tell Abdul the sun is a star."

Billy Bob replies, "No, I don't think the sun is a star."

So bear with us native Texans, we have an uphill climb.

So you had numb-nut friends. Those people are everywhere.




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stupidity rules this thread and the op is ignorant of the possibilities we can think of. those of us with brains that are not powered by a sqirr....oh never mind

In a University of Texas poll, an astonishing amount of those polled are woefully ignorant of basic science.

In their study, 60% of the population of Texas (that's about 15 MILLION people) either believe that Humans and Dinosaurs lived at the same time, or are "Not Sure".

!!!! Why do I find no surprise in this???

Well, there might be more going on here, than meets the eye.

Two things:

1) No disagreement - the general populace is, indeed, stupid, however...

2) 'basic science', as you referred to it, isn't all that 'basic' - it is constantly modified and updated as new evidence is presented and/or uncovered (something religion could learn from, and is responsible for suppressing for hundreds/thousands of years, but I digress).

If you've visited other corners of ATS (or the web, in general), you'll find that there are a growing number of folks out there that understand that the question of human origins is a very complex and ever-developing mystery. Some suggest - with evidence - that humans (in one form or another) had thrived in multiple iterations between global cataclysms, and have existed for 100,000s and even millions of years, and beyond, since just the last one. Since this has happened multiple times before, over the 4.5BILLion history of the earth, and Dinosaurs we know existed a mere 65MILLion yrs ago, then you can do the math.

I'm not concluding that humans and dinosaurs lived side by side, necessarily, but some could argue that humans at least existed near/before the time of dinosaurs, making the claim a little more plausible.

FTR...

I am not a creationist (in the biblical sense - just silly - no science behind it at all)
I am not an evolutionist (anymore - scientific and fossil record does not support macro evolution, only micro)

So, where does that leave us?

Perhaps Intervention Theory is the answer. Couple that with the understanding that the Earth HAS many times before (and will again, eventually) 'reset' itself, through any number of possible scenarios (asteroid impact, super volcano eruptions, ice ages, massive geophysical changes, etc), then you are given another distant timeline of 'human evolution' that may be waiting to repeat itself, yet again.

Do a Google search for "humans dinosaurs existed", and you'll be surprised at some of the returns. A lot of them are simply ridiculous. Others... not so much.

In closing, however, I will sadly have to agree with your original assessment with regards to stupidity rather than actual enlightenment.

Oh, and HOOK'EM!!
[U.Texas Grad '94 - Mathematics]