@fredsbend It really doesn't sound like something that will work. They'll just think Google is part of the pro-Obama justification majority

@fredsbend This would be good, but probably not something a search engine can do. I think you need genuine friendship to ever make inroads against some of these conspiracies

@curiousdannii The problem with conspiracies is that they inherently require that little more than circumstantial and anecdotal evidence exists unless someone whistle blows and let's the cat out of the bag. Either they are blown wide open (in which case there is no longer a conspiracy) or they are just an interesting idea that might be true, but we just can't prove it.

I had in mind that they have a new section they could call "Google study" or "truth" or something like that". Similar to how some searches popup to the image section or news section. In this new section, if you search Creationism, for example, there would appear hits for AiG, Biologos, and a few others with differing views on the topic.

But they might already be doing that. Here's the results for Creationism, after the "wikipedia excerpt" section:

I see AiG and conservapedia along side Rationalwiki, national center for science education, and national geographic.

No middle grounder's like biologos, though.

In general, the problem is the populace, not Google searches. Generally, once people make up their mind, which occurs very young by the way, it is very hard to change their mind and they don't want to anyway.

So if we are to breed skepticism into society (and by that I mean an attitude that doesn't readily accept anything unless it has been rigorously vetted), it would be easier to start when they are children and finish before they graduate highschool.

I find, in looking as curriculum, and from my experience in school, which was only 1 to 2 decades ago, that teachers generally teach from the lowest level of understanding: knowledge acquisition (memorization).

You get some comprehension for the more involved topics as you progress into middle school, but generally never get much higher.

Even post-secondary education is often lacking, occasionally reaching analysis, and rarely and never hitting synthesis and evaluation, respectively.

American perspective, by the way, in the state with the 40 somthing-th highest standardized test scores.

I guess you could say that I have a skewed view of how poorly our schools do, perhaps.

@fredsbend Interesting that BioLogos doesn't show up in the first page of results. (I did finally find them on page 5.) I wonder if it's because YECs and secularists link to each other when making their cases, and therefore drive up each others' Page Rank. But they generally ignore BioLogos.

5!

wow!

Maybe. The middle guy always gets a little less attention.

Which kind of leads into another human tendency. The idea of "them" and "us". We tend to polarize and neglect that a plethora of options exist between the two extremes.

My infant son is hungry. gtg.

@BruceAlderman Creationists like to argue against BioLogos plenty. I'd expect it's because they don't like to use the label to describe themselves

Yes, that may be the case. On the BioLogos home page I see the phrases "evolutionary creation", "evolutionary understanding of God's creation", and "evolution and Christian faith", but not the word "creationism".