{"id":17659,"date":"2010-05-12T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-people-aren%e2%80%99t-always-right-alabama-creationism-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-05-12T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:48:49","slug":"the-people-aren%e2%80%99t-always-right-alabama-creationism-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-people-aren%e2%80%99t-always-right-alabama-creationism-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"The people aren\u2019t always right: Alabama &amp; Creationism | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Zimmer asks <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/05\/12\/will-anyone-in-alabama-speak-for-evolution\/\">&ldquo;Will Anyone In Alabama Speak For Evolution?&rdquo;<\/a> The story is that a Republican candidate for governor in Alabama is being accused of not being a Creationist, and he is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/05\/al-gov-candidate-responds-to-ad-i-do-too-believe-in-creationism-video.php?ref=fpblg\">asserting that he is a Creationist<\/a>. Some people might be surprised by this, but this <i>is<\/i> Alabama. It is famously well known that the general public tends to split down the middle in regards to evolution, and that there is a class aspect to the division. But what&rsquo;s the breakdown by region? The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss08\">GSS<\/a> can help.<\/p><p>Let&rsquo;s look at two variables:<\/p><p><b>SCITEST4<\/b>: In your opinion, how true is this? <i>Human beings developed from earlier species of<br>animals<\/i><\/p><p><b>REGION<\/b>, which you can see on the Census Division map below:<br><span><\/span><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f271_cendivco1.gif\" alt=\"cendivco\" width=\"599\" height=\"516\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4145\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>And the chart below shows the responses by region:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f271_evolveregion.png\" alt=\"evolveregion\" width=\"600\" height=\"459\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4147\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi are in the &ldquo;East South Central,&rdquo; and that&rsquo;s the most Creationist region of the country. To come out and support evolution in that region you need to either be a Yankee, or the president of Auburn university!<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9f271_wGw7TUZMpP0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Zimmer asks &ldquo;Will Anyone In Alabama Speak For Evolution?&rdquo; The story is that a Republican candidate for governor in Alabama is being accused of not being a Creationist, and he is asserting that he is a Creationist. Some people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-people-aren%e2%80%99t-always-right-alabama-creationism-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}