Jack comments on "Target audience" size for the Less Wrong sequences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 18 November 2010 06:47:48PM 8 points [-]

Am I the only one dying to know what explanation for the existence of complex life is endorsed by the 24% of atheists who don't believe in evolution?!

Comment author: Louie 19 November 2010 03:33:01AM 3 points [-]

My girlfriend is a weak Buddhist/Atheist (who gives a 60% chance to "ghosts exist") and she doesn't think evolution is correct. I asked her why and she said because it's not proven. She said she read a biology professor's book in Taiwan several years ago that says they are "missing evidence" and so that makes the theory invalid. Also, she points out that since it's a theory and not a law, it's not true yet. The evolution thing is kind of extra funny to me because she dragged me to a lame dinosaur museum a few days ago where we watched a really basic movie about how evolution happened. Her take is that it's just a silly story scientist made up to feel smart.

And she has a degree in engineering and went to the best magnet school in Taiwan for high school where she concentrated on math and physics.

Comment author: HonoreDB 19 November 2010 04:28:51AM 0 points [-]

So, where does she think all this complexity came from?

Comment author: Manfred 19 November 2010 12:37:44PM 1 point [-]

Ghosts.

(sorry!)

Comment author: jimmy 18 November 2010 08:11:32PM 2 points [-]

It looks like that category includes agnostics too.

I was unfortunate enough to spend some time talking to an agnostic that doesn't believe in evolution. Her reasoning was "evolution is just as faith based as creationism". She was also interested in astrology and the like.

Comment author: Perplexed 18 November 2010 07:59:07PM 1 point [-]

The complexity of modern life arises from a conspiracy organized the Illuminati, but now controlled by the CIA and the oil companies. Either that or Bill Gates.