At 1.3%??!!!
Except amoung the statiscally challenged (which is seemingly a trait of Darwinists) such a miniscule precentage is not an indicator of "withstanding challenge" that would withstand and genuine peer review.
Those who are statistically challenged might take the fact that the %1.3 were merely those who accepted evolution and believed that God had nothing to do with it. Those who are statistically challenged would skip right over the %31 who accept evolution, but thought God did have something to do with it.
As for the number who don't accept evolution, I'm sure you'll find a similar number believe in Ghosts, the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon and the Loch Ness monster. I'm not in that group. Are you?
At 1.3%??!!! Except amoung the statiscally challenged (which is seemingly a trait of Darwinists) such a miniscule precentage is not an indicator of "withstanding challenge" that would withstand and genuine peer review.
Excuse me, but you have no room to be calling anyone "statiscally [sic] challenged" when you can't even properly read the original article and get the right numbers from it.
The one figure you're quoting is actually 1.2%, not "1.3%" as you cited. But that's not the right figure to use anyway. Even according to the article you're trying to use for your figure, support for evolution stands at 32.2%, not "1.3% [sic]".. Read the categories again and take another stab at it until you can do the math right... Until then, don't accuse *us* of being "statiscally [sic] challenged".
But the bigger problem is that there's a serious typo in the article which started this thread, so I'm pinging everyone who has posted to the thread in order to make sure they see the correction.
The actual percentage that Gallup got for the "naturalistic evolution" question is 12% (twelve), not 1.2% as was incorrectly claimed in the article. The decimal point does NOT belong there. I logged onto the Gallup site to get the figures direct from the source.
This brings the total of respondents who accept some type of evolution to 43%. That's actually a pretty respectable showing, for reasons I gave in post #47.
And since a number of people have wondered, here are the actual questions asked during polling:
Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings -- [ROTATED: human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life and God guided this process, human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life, but God had no part in this process, or God created human beings in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it]?