What do the smart people think?
I think we do because we educated people cannot believe that humans can be so ignorant.
Do you realise that Apollo was an American enterprise and still the greatest acheivement of mankind, but the greatest number of disbelievers are Americans. How can that be?
Well, it is easy – education. For instance. a great percentage of American schools teach creationism as a science. When you have this level of ignorance then anything can be pumped into young minds. Many kids and adults simply haven’t got the education to be able to see through what charlatans feed into their minds.
Without a rounded education, people are unable to even think for themselves and stop and think “wait a minute 400,000 people worked on Apollo, how could they all be scammed – how could they not talk? Or ‘wait a minute, if it was missiles that hit the WTC, who would keep the airlines quiet when they have supposedly lost 4 planes and hundreds of passengers”.
It really doesn’ take much for people with a bit of science and some kind of anti-establishment agenda to pull the wool over the eyes of young impressionable minds.
By the way, a new orbiter that NASA has surveying the moon has just taken pictures of the landing sites – it shows the equipment left behind and even the trails left by the astronauts as the moved around the area.
But I suppose the fools who believe in the hoax will see this is a another hoax.
The point is that if you argue with a creationist how millions of species could have been squeezed into boat built by a primitive farmer, and many of those animals having to come from Australia, South America, the Arctic, etc etc, and you still can’t get through to them, then what chance have we got to convince those that are obviously more excited by what they believe is a conspiracy, rather than be excited by the sheer magnificance of the achievement of the Apollo missions.
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They are people who mix bleach and ammonia to clean the bathroom & happen to survive.
I just tell them they're wrong & move on. Not worth the effort.
Hehehe. You think --this-- is bad? Wait until you try to teach Calculus to a bunch of fresh high-school graduates whose reading comprehension level is Peter Rabbit (on a good day ☺)
I honestly don't know how --anybody-- can justify the level of mediocrity to which American Education has fallen. Fifty years ago our education system was the envy of the World. Now we're the laughingstock of the World.
All I can say is: Enjoy it while it lasts. It's not going to be too very much longer before the social, political, economic, and educational card houses we've built over the last half century start to fall.
Ignorance and stupidity really are their own rewards.
Doug
EDIT: Yeah, Oklatonola is right about the amonia and bleach. My response is that if they survive is just proves that sometimes even Darwin screws up ☺
I suspect that the reason we keep trying is that we keep hoping that if we keep repeating it long enough, some one with an ignorant and closed mind just might let their guard down long enough or become curious enough to actually TRY learning something new. "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" may be a cliche, but it is also quite true, as the drowning of more than 1700 people in the days after Katrina SHOULD have demonstrated to the whole world.
I answered a question about heaven being parallel universe yesterday. My answer apparently really bothered a number of people, including the person who posted the question, because he posted the same question with a long rant about what type of parallel universe heaven is. In addition to reporting a person who implied that I'm insane in his answer (yes, I know who this person is - he's been stalking and defaming me online since either November 11, 2006 or October 5, 2005, I reported the second question as a rant. People really should read the Yahoo Answer Community Rules. I'm going to have to check my answered questions to see whether that original heaven as a parallel universe has been deleted or not. Apparently my description of the Sistine Chapel God jumping up and down on a crow-bar wedged into the skull of a closed-minded person in an attempt to open up a closed persons mind really caused a knee jerk reaction in some closed-minded people, because I had five thumbs down votes on my response.
Edit: I'm literally LOL!!!! at the "They are people who mix bleach and ammonia to clean the bathroom & happen to survive." response. What a great, succinct response. I've been trying to come up with a response like that for at least TWO YEARS. Genuis does have limitations.
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people who deny the Moon landings have something to sell. much less costly conspiracy documentaries to television networks which will transmit something as lengthy because it fairly is in concentration, the sound is nice and does not defame absolutely everyone who's according to hazard to sue. in addition they sell faked up articles to much less costly magazines, gets a commission for appearing on radio shows and sell books. it relatively is all bearing directly to the money. If the television and radio alerts exhibiting astronauts on the Moon did not come from the Moon, then radio engineers or maybe amateurs in dozens of international locations around the international could have well-known on the instant.
I don't bother to argue with Americans about the moon landings. I simply give them nonsensical information to send them farther afield - i.e. I agree that the landings were faked and then tell them I actually saw a Coke bottle laying on the set in one camera shot. To my surprise, a fair number of people to whom I feed this tripe actually accept it. Thus, I view them as beyond salvation.
Sometimes I will try to argue with people who are not American. Often their information has come from some half-baked delusional American goof. So in those cases, I try to fill them in on the true details hoping that they will recognize the real facts.
Otherwise I don't worry to much about them: the train to the future is leaving the station, and they are missing it. It's their loss.
Didn't you just answer your own question? Creationism has nothing to do with this. Creationism and evolution should not be taught in classrooms, unless people can teach them without bias. My school taught both, so we could form our own opinion. Science should be taught for students to get curious about life, and find conclusions for themselves. People can think whatever they want about the moon. If you and I and most people know it happened, then the rest is unimportant.