this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
653 points (88.6% liked)
Political Memes
5414 readers
5490 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This isn't an "American" problem though
26% of Europeans believe astrology is "very scientific" with 43% believing it is at least somewhat so.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/raw-data-astrology-in-europe/
While there is no real data on the age of the universe things you can look up, searches by country for creationism, or skepticism of evolution, show western european countries to largely be 15-40% skeptical of evolution, and eastern europe is much higher on average, but also contains the lowest skepticism of it.
Search "skepticism of evolution in Europe by country" and you will get information - it took me several hours of reading, but it was all on that search