Posted on 02/12/2009 6:54:08 AM PST by metmom
A new poll released just in time for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday found only 39 percent of Americans say they "believe in the theory of evolution" and just 24 percent of those who attend church weekly believe in the explanation for the origin of life.
The Gallup survey, released Wednesday, found a quarter of those polled do not believe in evolution, and 36 percent say they don't have an opinion either way.
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More Christian beating is not necessary but will be happening soon enough.
IBTCB.
Apparently you never had a chance to meet coyoteman.
I didn’t say I was reconciling the Bible with Christianity. As I said, Christianity is fully compatible with evolution. A fundamentalist belief in the inerrancy of every word in the Bible is not.
Scary, truly scary... more evidence of the average American’s growing ignorance of science.
I meant, of course, to say that I wasn't reconciling the Bible with evolution.
Ah, we live by the polls now?
Only if you don't believe what Jesus said about Adam and Eve.
Seems to me that if anyone knew, it would be him.
John 1:1-3, 14-15 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' "
I guess you’re also excited about global warming?
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It's not growing. The numbers have always been that way. Perhaps they should also ask whether the Earth is flat, or if the Sun rotates around the Earth to check for correlations.
I agree with you 100%. Too broad a question.
Don’t use scripture quotes as a surrogate for Christianity.
It would be interesting if there was a carefully worded poll that addressed those questions.
I’d be really interested in seeing how many people believed in the totally atheistic, no-God, no intelligence allowed, primordial soups to man, kind of evolution.
Accepting the theory of evolution is not a question of faith. It’s just like gravity. You need not profess belief in it or understand it. Whatever it is, it’s there. People can use whatever explanation they want for it. However, scientists use observational proof as the standard. Anything that doesn’t hold up to the level of observation will be overthrown in the long run. Articles of faith have no such clause. They remain immutable and are generally based on revelatory experiences of individuals.
This appears to be how the folks with an agenda do science. Global Warming, Ozone Holes, Evolution, etc. The debate is over. My side won. If you disagree with me, you are ignorant about science.
Bleah!
I’m impressed with the skepticism of Americans in this junk science (evolution). If only Americans would be so skeptical of Keynesian economics.
People not believing the ToE doesn't mean that they are ignorant of science. They likely have as good an understanding of the ToE as your basic high school education allows. And even if it's more, their choosing not to believe it has nothing to do with their knowledge of it.
It's a pretty shallow assumption that people's lack of belief in the ToE is a result of their lack of knowledge of it. That's working on the assumption that the evidence is so compelling that if people *really* understood the ToE, OF COURSE they'd believe it; they couldn't help themselves.
Not really.
>>>a quarter of those polled do not believe in evolution, and 36 percent say they don’t have an opinion either way.
That illustrates why I never got excited over the Darwin controversies. Anybody can have an opinion and it doesn’t matter in the slightest.
If Darwin is correct and people say he wasn’t, the evolutionary process will still proceed without care. Contrary opinion won’t stop affect it in the slightest. By the same token if Genesis is literal truth then saying it isn’t won’t undue Creation either.
There are more immediate problems. Let people think what they want on the philosophical things that are immune to intervention.
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