By the way, I agree that science isn't a popularity contest.
Science is about truth, and truth may or may not be popular. As often as not, it isn't.
I still thought that finding some measure of people's beliefs would be interesting and educational.
Again, Good post.
To be fair historic sciences can never prove the past. But they can take what exists today and paint pictures, filling in the dots in a scientific way. And any theory will be improved and evolve and defended by the theorist bias.
Evolution is the best theory we have from what we have here to look at.
Modern Creationism and ID are just scams, the Institutional don’t even believe what they write. Its all “Destroy evolution”
Atheists are a problem because they feed the creationists. They are a like in that they want teach kids that ‘evolution proves there is no God.’