Posted on 12/20/2010 7:19:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you're in a room of 100 people, odds are likely about 40 think God created humans about 10,000 years ago, part of a philosophy called creationism, according to a Gallup poll reported Friday (Dec. 17). That number is slightly lower than in years past and down from a high of 47 percent in both 1993 and 1999.
And 38 percent of Americans, the poll estimates, believe God guided the process that brought humans from "cavemen" to today's incarnation over millions of years, while 16 percent think humans evolved over millions of years, without any divine intervention.
This secular view, while a relatively small number, is up from 9 percent in 1982, according to Gallup.
Like most American attitudes, Gallup wrote, views on human origins have political consequences. For instance, debates and clashes over which explanations for human origins should be included in school textbooks have persisted for decades. And with 40 percent of Americans continuing to hold to an anti-evolutionary belief about the origin of humans, it is highly likely that these types of debates will continue, according to Gallup.
The findings also stand in stark contrast to another announcement Friday, this one by John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The memo was issued to federal science agencies to guide them in making rules to ensure scientific integrity.
The Gallup results are based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 10-12 with a random sample of 1,019 adults, ages 18 and older, living in the continental United States. The findings were weighted by gender, age, race, education, religion and phone lines to make the sample nationally representative.
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So does the complete misuse of thermodynamics by creationists.
Yes. Another evo experiment goes down in flames.
>>Absolutely determined to take the word of men over the Word of God?<<
Nope. There are lots of Biblical references but you evidently have missed them.
Of course. But remember, 5 in 10 Americans are below average IQ. That means that even one fifth of the "dumber than a box of rocks" people understand that "creationist views" are absurd to the maximum.
BTW I don’t subscribe to creation.com talking points - not really even sure they are defending creation science rather than muddying the waters.
“Ohh, don’t talk about that item yet. We’re not sure we can defend it properly.” Sheesh - most of the scientific observations can not be fully understood nor explained nowadays.
> “There are lots of Biblical references but you evidently have missed them.”
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List them here.
BTW I don’t subscribe to creation.com talking points, not really even sure they are defending creation science rather than muddying the waters.
“Ohh, don’t talk about that item yet. We’re not sure we can defend it properly.” Sheesh, most of the modern day scientific observations can not be fully understood/explained nowadays.
This is total bullshit. I believe God created the heaven and the earth and everything in it but I have no idea when it occurred. Nor do I care.
Yeah, I know decreased entropy is required for evolution to work on the earth and you are the guy who believes in evolution. Therefore you are the one who needs to supply the equation showing decreased entropy on the Earth on a massive scale in order for evolution to 'work'.
You still don't understand your error. Are you the poster boy of evolution?
> “So does the complete misuse of thermodynamics by creationists.”
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When the state granted me a license to practice engineering, they didn’t stipulate that only evoloosers could use the physical laws.
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Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing what you think these 'Gap Theory' verses are too.
So where are the pillars holding it up?
I didn’t realize that you were Hindu.
Now you just don’t understand.
You are bound by the words of the Pope or any other ‘creation’ group that the atheists want to use against you. It keeps them from having to defend their beliefs.
Conveniently, they are not bound by anything anybody said because, well, science changes you know. All the time. Might be totally different tomorrow. You never know.
Are you sure that is total bullshit?
What if not having any idea when it happened and not caring is really what is total bullshit?
Devolution: As in, “Are we not men? No we are DEVO?”
Let me go put a planter on my head.
Nice Explanation. Thanks.
Rut Roh. Looks like another oopsie.
Maybe it is The Four Pillars of the Standard Cosmology that you are referring to?
The total bs is the media using the 10,000 year template to “ridicule” bible believing Christians. No one knows.
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