[editor-surveyor]

It was 6 in 10 just a few years ago, so I doubt Gallup’s analysis, but if true we are surely well into the “falling away” that leads to his coming!
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[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

So 40% of Americans operate off of common sense, 38% are blinkered but well-meaning, and 16% are abject morons.

That correlates fairly well with the conservative-moderate-liberal breakdown as well.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Like most American attitudes, Gallup wrote, views on human origins have political consequences.

This is one root of our problem. If the federal government would stick to only what it is supposed to do, there wouldn't be a "political consequence" to belief about origins. What possible difference should how we got here make in how the federal government does it's job?

It's only because government wants to insert itself into the details of our lives that the details of our lives become "politically important".

[allmendream]

“Americans’ views on human origins varied significantly by level of education and religion, the poll found. Those with less education were more likely to hold a creationist view that God created life thousands of years ago, while college graduates were more likely to hold one of the two viewpoints involving evolution.”

The more you know, especially about science, the less likely you are to be a creationist.

[EternalVigilance]

And still, the cornerstone of American republican self-government and liberty remains unchanged:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

"Self-evident," or, to put it in the modern vernacular, "as plain as the nose on your face."

One must ask themselves the question: Why do those who can't see something so obvious, though they are a distinct minority in this country still, have so much power?

It has to have something to do with the failure of the majority to effectively demand true representation, I think.

[meadsjn]

Gallup Poll: 4 in 10 Americans still hold creationist views

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.

[upsdriver]

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).

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.

[privatedrive]

It would be interesting to see what repub POTUS contenders believe: Sarah? Mitt? Huck? Newt? Others?

[a fool in paradise]

The poll begins with a bias and sets out to draw a forced conclusion.

The question asked does not include Scientology (aliens came to Earth and made man flawed) or the view the God does not exist at all.

And if God did not make man or the universe, are there multiple Gods that sprang forth from the Big Bang?

[count-your-change]

“creationism”? What is that?

[bannie]

Many don’t see the two subject concepts as mutually exclusive.

[Revolting cat!]

I don’t hold Creationist views, but I don’t see how all these past and many geological changes that so-called scientists promote could have all taken place in the roughly short 6,500 years since God created Earth.

[wardaddy]

If you're in a room of 100 people, odds are likely about 40 think God created humans about 10,000 years ago

the Left's favorite canard about Christians view of how man began