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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Jeepers, editor-surveyor, I regard myself as a creationist — but not by this definition! Who came up with this definition?
I am just a simple, plain-vanilla creationist. That is to say, one who believes that God created all things in heaven and on earth, and pre-eminently man, in the Beginning. And that, as the Gospel of John tells us, "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." (John 1:3)
The physicists tell us that the estimated age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. To speak of "age" at all implies a beginning. It doesn't really matter to me how old the universe is. That is irrelevant to the idea of its having had a beginning. Regardless of its age, the Creation was "in the Beginning" — the spiritual creation as described in Genesis 1.
Just my thoughts, FWIW.
Even if it is true, note the correlation between that falling away and the condition of our society and political landscape.
The wholesale rejection of God that comes from the atheistic mindset which has hijacked science is destroying us.
And notice, even for the alleged *improvement* in getting rid of creationism, public schools suck worse than ever. Eliminating creationism in schools has done NOTHING to improve the quality of education that kids are receiving in those indoctrination centers.
Is there any doubt? America, at least, is in a falling away.