"An alarmingly high number of individuals responded that they believe the earth is only 10,000 years old, and that a deity created our species in its present form at the start of that period."
Why is that alarming? If the same number agreed with the author instead of disagreed with him, I suppose it would cease to be alarming.
"An alarmingly high number of individuals responded that they believe the earth is only 10,000 years old, and that a deity created our species in its present form at the start of that period." Why is that alarming? If the same number agreed with the author instead of disagreed with him, I suppose it would cease to be alarming.