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Do you really think the guy writing this has time to explain the methodology of one statistic from one study? The story is already longer than most articles, and the majority of people (excluding curious fellows like yourself) dont care about how the study was conducted.

Go read the book yourself if you want to know more.

Evidence is a prerequisite for faith. Faith requires evidence.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Christians, and thus the Church, are to have an answer for every question asked. Infinite critical thinking.

1 Peter 3:15 and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you

Public schools are about memorization and standardized testing, not questioning and critical thinking.

Academic skill level generally refers to reading, writing, and math but certainly, more than ever, it also includes critical thinking and application of knowledge. Current students readily acknowledge that they have mastered memorization skills while in high school but they are often inexperienced with what it means to think critically, independently, and apply what they know. The issue is not that they cannot learn these skills. The issue is that too many have never had the opportunity to learn and to demonstrate the skills. A question to be answered is why they have not had to learn and apply these skills during their high school careers.

And what starts in public high school continues on in college

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

Everyone is born recognizing that homosexuals are unnatural. No one is born without a mother and a father. Biology 101. The homosexual agenda is indoctrination, discouraging the asking of questions, which at Vanderbilt is banning Christian groups, censoring the opposition. Why discourage asking question and censor the opposition? Because the indoctrination is only successful so long as those indoctrinated are not exposed to critical thinking, which helps to explain the lack of critical thinking in public education.

This is what I'm talking about. With all due respect, nowhere in the Bible does it say that the Earth is the center of the solar system, the universe, or anything else. There are verses that refer to the Earth as "fixed," which could be taken in any number of ways, least of all if I run into the Earth, it doesn't seem to move. We can't have an argument if you have, like I've said before, no idea what you're talking about. It was considered the best cosmological theory of the day, which was adopted by the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church by no means was the only institution or government that thought that. It was a theory traced back to the Greeks. I can't believe I have to cite Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model.

And yes, the Catholic Church got mad at Galileo when he said, no, this isn't true. But again, to say this makes religion bad or whatever is again conflating two separate things, which is the Bible, and the doctrines of the Catholic Church, which is aimed at being consistent with the Bible, but isn't in fact the Bible.

Overall the comments people leave over and over without being able to see why they are confused simply feeds into the recognition that the vast majority of people have no ability to really think critically, and only instead regurgitate some fashionable opinion they've internalized as their own.

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