Are we really that stupid?

I recently received a email from my brother-in-law concerning a poll showing that 63% of the American population don't believe in the Darwin theory of evolution. Here's the link. Being as staunch a skeptic as I, or maybe more so, he was concerned about the high number. How in the hell in the year 2009, coming up on the 40th fucking anniversary of the first moon landing could the number be so damn high? Could that many American people be that damn stupid?

Apparently this many can actually be that stupid or maybe just comfortably ignorant. My BIL is involved in research and polling on a professional basis daily. I'm sure he would not be promoting any kind of statistical information that was not from a respected and reliable source.

I personally feel that so many believe in the woo-woo world because so many of the practitioners and preachers of the bull shit resort to in Latin what is known as feces fabricatum. English translation: Make shit up. After all, making up shit in order to promote a viewpoint when you have no facts is much more polite that calling your opponent fat, or a commie. After all when you make up shit you can make it up to fit your audience so that they will like you and not think you are really the asshole you actually are.

Here is a link to a video in which a young fellow clearly and with no shame at all uses the feces fabricatum method of "proving" the truth of creationism. The rebuttal points of the narrator almost make you feel sorry for the poor kid. Oh hell, he's young. Maybe someday he will find a clue and come around away from the side of Magic and Imaginary Friends into the light of reason and logic. Or maybe not. In that case, fuck him.

Now if you want to spend a few minutes with a real comic genius check out this video of Ricky Gervais on creation. BTW if you are not aware of Ricky you should check him out. He is the creator and star of the original British sit-com The Office which evolved in the U.S. version by the same name.