What Do Americans Believe About Creationism and Evolution?</

john in springfield | 10/23/2009 | jis (vanity)

[RightWingNilla]

The Bible says that? Thats a lot of food! Maybe he grew some plants on the ark?

[count-your-change]

Yes, unless I misunderstand Gen. 6:21,22.

[RightWingNilla]

You are correct! I looked it up.

[count-your-change]

Always good to check out what one is told and all that...

[deadrock]

I am willing to bet hard coin that a ‘Belief in GLOBAL WARMING, by Education Level’ would be the mirror image of ‘Belief in Evolution, by Education Level.’

[RightWingNilla]

It seems that if they went fishing, it would have saved a lot of space on the ark.

[AndrewC]

I wonder if that is meaningful?

Oh, there is no doubt it is meaningful. But what exactly that meaning is, is the question. It might mean that more Catholics became non-Catholics(to use the evolutionists favorite theistic evolutionists) and more people who were reluctant to state their stance on pure evolution(ism) "came out". Whatever the reason for the change in that number, the percentage who reject any form of evolution has remained the same over the time period.

[Old Landmarks]

Is it possible that Noah took some lizards aboard and considered them to be representative of dinosaurs...

According to the written record, God defined the terms and that same record says nothing about Noah disobeying, making a mistake in this event, nor failing to carry out what God told him to do.

[ColdWater]

A change from 47 to 50 percent is a DROP? You failed math 101.

[ColdWater]

I don’t respond to people that make fun of disabled veterans and call DD214’s silly.

[ColdWater]

My opinion as to whether He is something which is some definition which you claim is irrelevant.

Not my definition. Your definition as you refer to the ID.

[RightWingNilla]

Well, its possible God told Noah to just grab a few of those lizards and leave the T-Rexs alone =)

This had me thinking though...instead of bringing horses on board, why didnt Noah just grab a bunch of these little guys...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orohippus

[count-your-change]

Gen. 6:16 mentions the only available opening as an elevated window so I can't see how the fishing could be done but the exact configuration of the window isn't clear from what I read. And I don't know whether their diet included fish at that point.

[AndrewC]

A change from 47 to 50 percent is a DROP? You failed math 101.

Use the chart we are talking about, before you shoot your mouth off.

Forty-four percent in 1982, forty-four percent in 2008.

[ColdWater]

Here is your post:

“If anything those numbers show a drop in people who believe in evolution,”

It goes from 47 to 50 percent.

[AndrewC]

“If anything those numbers show a drop in people who believe in evolution,”

Please keep my comments in context. You presented number from a Feb 2009 Gallup poll. That poll had a result which gave no option for an intermediate answer. I presented the poll which gave the intermediate question and the results show that 50% of those polled believed in a form of evolution. The 2009 poll showed that only 39% of those polled believed in evolution. That is a significant drop from the 2008 poll. Thus my comment "Apples/oranges".

[ColdWater]

Please keep my comments in context. You presented number from a Feb 2009 Gallup poll.

I gave you numbers directly from your post.

[ColdWater]

Please keep my comments in context. You presented number from a Feb 2009 Gallup poll. That poll had a result which gave no option for an intermediate answer. I presented the poll which gave the intermediate question and the results show that 50% of those polled believed in a form of evolution.

Correction. The only numbers I gave were the 47 to 50 percent increase in believers of evolution taken from YOUR poll in YOUR post.

[Old Landmarks]

Well, its possible God told Noah to just grab a few of those lizards and leave the T-Rexs alone...

Possible, but not sure why it matters.

I don't see what would give you cause to consider a T-Rex to be some sort of problem.

[john in springfield]

Apparently it took baby (newly-hatched) T-Rexes a couple of years to grow from cat size to golden retriever size. So as long as you had enough fresh meat and a decent enough pen, and were dealing with hatchlings, the logistics wouldn’t be too bad.