I didn't say I agreed with the 99.85 number but suppose for the moment that the number is valid. Therer is a further question of how such a number becomes and remains valid. It could be because the truth of Darwinism is so manifestly obvious and has been so thoroughly proven and established that none but the basest blackguards in sockety could doubt it. Then again, it could be because for the last 100 years, everybody who has ever claimed to doubt it has been blackballed, ****-canned, denied tenure, fired, evicted, flunked out, expelled, and/or otherwise forced out of academic life.
Ben Stein made a movie about that sort of thing two years ago and that movie ( "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed") has been being shown on cable channels recently and is available on DVD. A much fuller discussion of this problem is available in the form of a book titled Slaughter of the Dissidents", by a Dr. Jerry Bergman.
Like I say, the argument from numbers doesn't do much for me one way or another, but since you brought it up...
I mean, basically, when you're talking about FACTS, then numbers don't matter. Facts are what they are and the numbers be damned. If you're talking about how different people view something which really is highly subjective, then numbers could easily matter.
So instead of believing the 99.85% of PhD biologists who are actually trained in the field - 479,300 of them - who disagree with you, we should believe... you. And a few hundred biologists (0.15%) who agree with you.
And instead of believing the 25,700 CHRISTIAN PhD biologists - 97.3% of the CHRISTIANS who have been highly trained and are experts in biology - we should believe... you. And the 2.7% of Christian biologists who agree with you.
Sorry, doesn’t wash.