Posted on 10/17/2006 10:37:34 PM PDT by celmak
Gallup polls dating back to 1982 have consistently shown that at least 44% of Americans agree to the statement: “God created humans pretty much in their present form either exactly as the Bible describes it or within the last 10,000 years.”
A Zogby poll released earlier this year had a somewhat different, but related, question, and it revealed that 69% of people believe biology teachers should teach Darwin’s theory of evolution along with the scientific evidence against it. Just 21% felt only scientific evidence supporting evolution should be taught.1
Zogby also discovered that almost 89% of those who were in high school within the past ten or eleven years (ages 18–29) believe that science teachers should present evidence for and against evolution.2
Evolutionary activists are alarmed that the numbers remain so high, especially given the increasing, intensive evolution indoctrination seen in schools and the media.
The grassroots approach by creationist organizations to distribute materials throughout the country appears to be an effective counter-effort against these activists, especially in groups under the age of 29—those who have received the most indoctrination of recent generations.
Expect evolutionists, therefore, to use their science museums, magazines and classrooms to promote the evolution worldview with increasing fervor.
References:
1) In a September 2005 Gallup poll, with wording that was slightly different, 53% of Americans agreed with the statement that “God created man exactly how the Bible describes it.” Back
2) www.upi.com Back
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sudo-scientist: a scientist running with root privledges.
*dodges rotten tomatoes*
You're right! How dare those so called scientist types force their crap down our throats! I know better!
ROFLMAO. The more the liberals try to indoctrinate, the least effective they become. Must be intrinsic for students to rebel against authority is the only theory I can come up with to explain this.
Forget about it. Scalia would never support this and Kennedy would not either.
Lost in the courts in Dover, PA Lost in the elections in Dover. Lost in the elections in Kansas. Lost in the Board of Education in Ohio. Lost in the Board of Education in Michigan. Lost gaining support from evangelical churches. Lost in gaining support from the RC church. Will probably cost DeVos the election in Michigan. Lost good will from the Thomas More Center legal staff.
In fact, anytime one needs to develop a losing campaign, you couldn't do better than hiring the clowns at DI.
Obscure, but that just made it funnier.
Don't count on it.
Conservatives seem to have an uncanny way of bending over backwards to accommodate the PC, liberal point of view once they reach the USSC.
Damn those American people! HOW DARE they not slavishly swallow everything that emanates from the pens of Charles Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould!! Those men are the saviors of modern thought!!
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hello stargate fan,
actually did you read the poll question?
It said only that information regarding the problmes with evolutionary principles should be taught, not that the bible should be taught as a competing theory.
Why such "fervor" in people who believe that the universe is a dead place rule by blind chance and that man is a purposeless machine?
Dispite the establishment of secular religion and the prohibiting of others which believe in Intelligent Design/Creation, supported every day by our tax dollars, God's eternal power and divine nature are clearly reflected by His creation. All of the censorship and evolutionary mythology in the world cannot dam the flood of truth. Celebrate success, although the credit is not ours, the wonder of God's handiwork speaks for itself, and the miracle of the Holy Spirit changing hearts hostile to God is way beyond any of our human reasoning.
Perhaps interesting to note:
68%, 69%, 51%+31%=82%, 88%, 46%+36%=82% etc....in the same range/ballpark for opposition to homosexual marrage.
"According to a FOX News poll conducted in the days following the Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Massachusetts, 66 percent of Americans oppose and 25 percent favor same-sex marriage."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103756,00.html
12% 13% believe in Godless evolution is only half of 25 percent favoring same-sex marriage (for this one survey).
One thing is certain - there is no nationwide buy-in to the idea that evolution should be taught as an unquestioned theory.
Bump.
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