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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Anthony Wiener?
Proof that DEVO was right.
I think you are referring to an old testament scripture...
Walt Brown Ph.D. describes how the Earth’s outer crust (10 miles thick) would have rested upon pillars in support of his hydroplate theory. How the fountains (subterranean waters) of the great deep broke open during Noah’s Flood.
See my links page or post #40 of this thread for his online creation science book - part 2 describes details involved in the hydroplate theory which I believe was built on top of Henry Morris’ work in ‘The Genesis Flood’
You can't say 'no one knows'. What you mean is that you don't know.
I know. So do others.
Don’t forget - God knows
The only One who was there from 'the beginning'. :-)
You mean the Bible is completely literal except when it isn't?
>>In it there is a picture of a fossilized dinosaur footprint with a human footprint embedded within it.<<
I’ve never said that man and dinosaurs did not coexist. Dinosaurs not since Gen 1:2 however. The Bible does describe Lucifer as ruler of the earth before he fell.
>>Also in the Book of Job are descriptions of behemoth and leviathon.<<
I think Job speaks of the leviathan but most all scholars today agree that was a crocodile. Behemoth is spoken of in the Bible only one time and no one really knows what it was.
For the Coelacanth and other sea creatures to have survived the first destruction of this world is not beyond comprehension, in fact very probable. Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
There was water covering the land so some of the sea creatures survived. It’s also not inconceivable that the Wolemi pine seeds survived. Who knows how many other plants or sea species survived which are now extinct or not yet know about.
Bottom line to me is that both Biblically and Scientifically the gap between Gen1:1 and Gen 1:2 makes more sense.
No, I mean your reference to pillars and the link to The Four Pillars of the Standard Cosmology .
Nope NL- I think it means you and e-s could/should be more clear when making veiled Biblical references.
Now when can I expect either of you to respond to my post?
Cue the crickets for response to my post #142
I don't believe in evolution. Like other well-established scientific theories, I accept it as the best current explanation for phenemona that science has to offer.
Therefore you are the one who needs to supply the equation showing decreased entropy on the Earth
You're the one saying it applies, so show me how it applies. For reference, the Earth absorbs about 120 petajoules of energy from the Sun per second. That's 160,000 times the world's nuclear power generation for an entire year.
>>List them here.<<
The internet allows for very easy research and study. Take advantage of it. I have things I would better be doing.
You see, whether you believe it or not will make no changes in my life and surely doesn’t impact ones Salvation.
Science and the Bible do not disagree unless you try to box God into the last 6-7000 years or try some conviluted interpretation of Scripture to try to explain away scientific findings.
Ya...read all of that a dozen years ago....
>>I’ve never said that man and dinosaurs did not coexist. Dinosaurs not since Gen 1:2 however.<<
Hmmm so before the original sin where death and destruction entered the Earth, the dinosaur and a whole bunch of other animals went extinct - before death right?
>>I think Job speaks of the leviathan but most all scholars today agree that was a crocodile. Behemoth is spoken of in the Bible only one time and no one really knows what it was.<< Hmmm and yet his tail was compared to a tree trunk and in fact could be matched w/ anyones description of a dinosaur?
>>For the Coelacanth and other sea creatures to have survived the first destruction of this world is not beyond comprehension, in fact very probable.<<
Hmmm not very probable for evolution to leave anything that old as an exact replica of a modern-day ‘fossil - is it?
Things that make you go hmmmm...
It would be interesting to see what repub POTUS contenders believe: Sarah? Mitt? Huck? Newt? Others?
So, why isn’t the headline “78% believe in Creation!”
Dr Brown’s book has been through 2 revisions at least in the last 10-12 years. The 8th edition is considerably larger than the 7th.
I can see nothing that justifies a ‘response’ to whatever you think you’re saying in 142.
Perhaps a bit of expansion is in order?
OK, I'll use your term of choice.
"You're the one saying it applies, so show me how it applies."
Wrong again. You just said that you are the one who 'accepts' evolution therefore you need to show decreasing entropy on the Earth on a massive scale from solar energy in order to 'accept' evolution. I don't 'accept' or believe it.
"For reference, the Earth absorbs about 120 petajoules of energy from the Sun per second. That's 160,000 times the world's nuclear power generation for an entire year."
While my skillet doesn't receive near that much energy from the burner, the scrambled eggs still just get cooked. No decrease in entropy there either.
As I suspected, there is nothing to support your comic book beliefs.
Or should we google “comic book?”
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