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In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins
An anonymous reader writes "The latest Gallup poll is out, and it finds that 46% of Americans hold the view that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. According to Gallup, the percentage who hold this view has remained unchanged since 1982, when they first started asking the question. Roughly 33% of Americans believe in divinely guided evolution, and 15% believe that humans evolved without any supernatural help."
A devoted Recursionist, I see
Table-ized A.I.
My complaint is there there's never a place on the forms to mark that I believe in the theory that life started when Neil deGrasse Tyson traveled back in time to ejaculate into the primordial ooze.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Slightly less than half the population has below average intelligence.
More telling, religions don't deal with formal proofs and require that you show your work.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
As an American, I prefer to ignore your statistic for so many of us being creationists, and I am not interested in your so-called evidence that the figure is correct. The number just feels wrong, therefore it must be a lie. My gut tells me there aren't nearly that many creationists around here, because neither I nor the people I know, are anything like that!
Furthermore, I don't understand how many people could be creationists, so that's another argument that not nearly many of them could be.
Finally, your poll is biased and invalid, because .. because .. I want it to be.
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In the beginning was very low entropy and a lot of energy. Then it went downhill from there.
In fact every one of those 1,024 "adults" could be part of Palin's extended family.
If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
"It's turtles all the way down."
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn if these people firmly believe life on earth is less than 10.000 years old, or they are just saying that because they heard it in bible class. The fact is these morons vote, and they are ruining things for the rest of us.
if life began less than 10.000 years ago (and frankly I'm skeptical of such a precise estimate), how are they even old enough to vote?
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
There is no evidence to support the idea of a divine creator.
Your opinion suggests that you haven't discovered Google
(Or at least didn't use it before posting this...)
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I'm checking this out; thanks for the referral.
As it stands, I only have a brief history of time spent researching the subject.