In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins 1359
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."
Ah, Recursionism (Score:5, Funny)
A devoted Recursionist, I see
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
So, slightly less than half the population... (Score:5, Funny)
Slightly less than half the population has below average intelligence.
homework... (Score:5, Funny)
Why I don't believe the poll (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Until you can prove them wrong (Score:5, Funny)
In the beginning was very low entropy and a lot of energy. Then it went downhill from there.
Re:Who answers these polls? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Until you can prove them wrong (Score:5, Funny)
"It's turtles all the way down."
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:Until you can prove them wrong (Score:2, Funny)
There is no evidence to support the idea of a divine creator.
Your opinion [intelligentdesign.org] suggests that [intelligen...etwork.org] you haven't [discovery.org] discovered Google [designinference.com]
(Or at least didn't use it before posting this...)
Re:Until you can prove them wrong (Score:4, Funny)
As it stands, I only have a brief history of time spent researching the subject.