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]?
Thanks for doing the homework.
Now the question is, was the typo deliberate?
You truly are more than a pretty face.
Well done!
Why is the word "exactly" only used in the question in relation to the Bible? Why isn't it used in the first question in regards to evolution? You know, like "exactly" like Darwin said. Polls suck and this one is no different.
Curious also that the poll itself presents only three possibilities, offering no answer for those who neither accept the theory of evolution nor accept the Biblical creation account. It is as though the pollsters forgot that Christianity is not the only religion practiced in the United States.
Here's one for you. So who made this discovery 11 million years ago? What was the scientist's name?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060309/ap_on_sc/species_survivor