Why is creationism less common in the UK compared to the US?

[Rxlx]

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Why is creationism less common in the UK compared to the US?



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Glyn Williams

Creationism is a US invention.

Bible idolatry emerged as a way to establish a “higher source of authority” than the pope. It was sufficient for most non-catholics to reject papal authority. But the problem as with all fundamentalism is that the true zealot has to go further. Much further.

So one gets into the territory of taking the bible, with all its poetry, and metaphors and allusions as being literally true. Every word. Of course this means accepting as true, entirely contradictory statements. But the zealot can embrace contradictory statements without any form of internal struggle. (It’s ea
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Andy Wootton

Agnostic atheism is the fastest-growing ‘belief’(/not believing) system in the UK. We are not just different, we're getting further apart. I put it down to The Church of England being mostly about Summer Fêtes and Jumble Sales and there being very little social pressure to believe in sky fairies. Good education can help with that too.

Maybe the age of many British churches helps. If the congregation spends its time raising money to fix the church roof it doesn't have time to recruit. The size of the country probably made it easier for The Enlightenment to reach more of the population.
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Mark Stubbs

Higher standards of Education in the UK
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Jim Brown ·
Because the average intelligence and education level of a Brit is much higher than an American.

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Ivor Presland

We aren't as gullible as Americans in the UK, we can see it's all made up..
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Adrian Churton

My answer: Education. Less religious schools and less home schooling. It's a long time since I was in school but even though we still had prayers and hymns in assembly, Creation and Genesis were part of Religious Education classes, which were about all religions, not in the Science Class.

That being said my sister works in a Roman Catholic School where Creation is taught.

(I know the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church have officially accepted evolution. It seems that in the case of this particular school it comes down

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Angela Birch

Better education in the UK as well as a respect for science.

In the US it is about 95% the view is that some of the more extreme evangelicals along with a few of the most traditional catholics.
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Harry Gaffing

Has studied religions for 55 years. Atheist.Dec 20
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Why did American creationism never gain the same following in Britain as in the US?
You have to understand that creationism is the child of the American evangelical movement, which is itself the religious wing of the far right Republican Party.

The evangelists realised a long time ago that the teachings of Jesus are diametrically opposed to their political views, so the evangelists have basically airbrushed Jesus from their preaching and preach mostly from the Old Testament.

This wasn’t really a problem - except the hypocrisy of Christinity without Christ - until the mainstream churches started to accept the scientific evidence for the age of the Earth etc. While all of the churches active in Europe have accepted that the Old Testament is at best allegorical, the evangelists can’t as they would have no religion left.

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So there you have the reason the dumb stupid British believe they are evolved from monkeys and believe they are higher educated than Americans.

 

[Rxlx]

https://www.quora.com/The-UK-Government-has-banned-the-teaching-of-creationism-in-science-classes-What-are-your-thoughts-on-this

Read all the GOD and Creation denying comments to this thread!

 

[Rxlx]

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[Rxlx]

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[Christ4Ever]

Dear @Rxlx,
Are you looking to argue both sides of the position?

With the Love of Christ Jesus.
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Nick
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[Rxlx]

Dear @Rxlx,
Are you looking to argue both sides of the position?

With the Love of Christ Jesus.
YBIC/Moderator
Nick
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Whatever gave you that idea!

 

[Rxlx]

How they tie themselves up in knots trying to prove ehy evolved from pondslime:

The Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution. The Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution​

'There are good reasons to understand why the Earth’s early atmosphere did not contain high concentrations of methane, ammonia, or other reducing gasses. The earth’s early atmosphere is thought to have been produced by outgassing from volcanoes, and the composition of those volcanic gasses is related to the chemical properties of the Earth’s inner mantle.'
'it became increasingly clear that the early atmosphere was probably volcanic in origin and composition, composed largely of carbon dioxide and nitrogen rather than the mixture of reducing gases assumed by the Miller-Urey mode.'
'Miller-Urey claimed to have produced amino acids in a primordial soup that was hit with bolts of electricity. Their primordial soup included methane - which is produced by rotting vegetation.'

The problem with Miller-Urey's theory is they assume there were volcanoes which travel up from the imaginary inner mantle.
In fact all volcanoes date from some years after The Flood when masses of dead humans, animal,s birds, fish and vegetation sucked into the emptied geyser voids had femented and ignited and erupted through shattered rocks.
Another point is there was no lightning until after the Flood as lightning needs clouds to generate masses of static.
If anything set the buried debris alight it was crustal flexing twice a day.

 

[Rxlx]

Pondslime is no longer how life began on Earth.

'In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date. Instead, he proposes that life arose in undersea hydrothermal vents. But both the hydrothermal vent and primordial soup hypotheses face another major problem.'

Oh my! Lane is another monkey brain who bought into old Earth being formed from bigband dust roasted at 'At about 10 billion degrees Fahrenheit - 5.5 billion Celsius - degrees that somehow formed into a big wet ball called Earth!
And Lane believes inside Earth is hot and makes the black smokers aka hydrothermal vents.
Black smokers on sea bed are merely fires in the buried flood debris like the volcanoes on land.

Chemical evolution is literally dead in the water.

 

[Rxlx]

More evolutionists fairy tales:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent:

Japanese 'scientists-fantasists' say:

Quote: It has been proposed that amino acid synthesis could have occurred deep in the Earth's crust and that these amino acids were subsequently shot up along with hydrothermal fluids into cooler waters, where lower temperatures and the presence of clay minerals would have fostered the formation of peptides and protocells.This is an attractive hypothesis because of the abundance of CH4 (methane) and NH3 (ammonia) present in hydrothermal vent regions, a condition that was not provided by the Earth's primitive atmosphere. A major limitation to this hypothesis is the lack of stability of organic molecules at high temperatures, but some have suggested that life would have originated outside of the zones of highest temperature.'

'could', 'would'.
Amino acid formation needs cooler water than a black smoker ...

But we have to remember methane is produced from decaying organic matter. So they think thre was rotting organic matter before organic life began.

How they tie themselves in knots instead of just accepting Genesis 1?

 

[Christ4Ever]

Whatever gave you that idea!

I must apologize since the last line of the post just disappeared into the rest of the post. Maybe highlighting that line, a bit more would be helpful to the reader to distinguish it from just another quoted comment against Creationism. My fault for just scanning the post.

By the way it is not surprising. Prideful people and all. You know Empire builders and all that.
Though most any nation as part of their unbelief probably sees it no differently.

Again my apologies sister.

With the Love of Christ Jesus.
YBIC/Moderator
Nick
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[Jubulations49]

Because the southwestern Irish are blasphemous traitors. And so are you.