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To: wagglebee
A Gallup poll, released earlier this month, reveals that 81 percent of U.S. teenagers believe God was somehow involved in human origins, with only 18 percent holding a purely secular view of evolution.

This means that seven decades of leftist anti-religious secularism is FAILING!

I don't know what Evolution which is a scientific theory has to do with leftist anti-religious secularism.

But touting this a good news is typical creationist distortion.

Here are the actual Gallup results they are talking about

The poll of 1,028 teenagers ages 13-17 found that 38 percent don't believe in evolution, believing instead that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so." Another 43 percent believe that humans "developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided" the process. All total, 81 percent believe that God was somehow involved. Only 18 percent believe that evolution took place without God playing a role.

So you are still talking about big majority 61-38% who believe in evolution over the fundamentalist Biblical view

and it gets better

Compare that to the adults

Adults actually are somewhat more likely not to believe in evolution. In a Gallup poll of adults last November, 45 percent said they believed in creationism while 38 percent believed that God guided the process of evolution. Only 13 percent of adults said they believed that evolution occurred without God's guidance.

So it's the Creationoids who are actually losing ground.

69 posted on 03/20/2005 12:57:54 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1
So it's the Creationoids who are actually losing ground. BWAAHAHA.

aren't you in for a rude awakening....!

73 posted on 03/20/2005 1:01:31 PM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: qam1
So you are still talking about big majority 61-38% who believe in evolution over the fundamentalist Biblical view

Have you taken into account those that believe in theistic evolution? (That wouldn't include me, but it probably wouldn't include you either.)

77 posted on 03/20/2005 1:04:09 PM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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