I have been waiting a very long time for editor-surveyor to produce his survey, which supports his claim that only 1 in every 10,000 Freepers believe evolution is possible...I suspect now, as I did some time ago, that editor-surveyor likes to make things up, skewed by his own wishful thinking...
Should he produce a valid survey which proves me wrong, I will apologize..until then, I think he is just saying what makes him feel comfortable...
That's a pretty good description of almost every anti-evo I've ever met, actually (and I've been debating this issue with hundreds of them for more than twenty years), which is very sad indeed.
Have you noticed that you're the only one that seems to be titilated by this?
Do you wonder why? Could it be that the rest of the gang are able to recognize when hyperbole is used in rhetoric? (consider that there are only about 70,000 reasonably active freepers to start with)
But more to the point, surveys of the general public have been done, and posted here too, and guess what? Even when the liberal dumacrats are included in the mix the evos are decidedly in the minority. And among conservatives, the surveys say over 78% don't buy the evo fantasy, so I guess you caught me, it's not 10,000:1
My WAG is that Freepers are more likely to oppose evolution than the general population, but only slightly. A large percentage of the the evolution critics on FR are ID advocates, and ID accepts the historic fact of evolution.
Some YEC FReepers have given up trying to argue science and have started their own series of threads that usually end before 50 responses.