national poll: Americans are uncertain creationists

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm amused by the fact that, taking this poll at face value, there's a non-negligible number of people who think that humans evolved from non-human lifeforms *and* that Adam and Eve were real people.

There are some who take the creation stories in Genesis in a semi-literal fashion and thus the "breath of life" wasn't God animating dirt, but God granting sentience to a pair of proto-humans and thus making them more than mere animals, and that it was from these proto-humans the sons of Adam found wives rather than some unnamed sisters.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

About 40% of Americans accept young-earth creationism as fact. Such shows how backward much of America is. If people can believe young-earth creationism they can believe any propaganda.

Believing humans came about in the past 10,000 years != believing the Earth came about in the past 10,000 years.  Most people who believe humans came about in the past 10,000 years still believe the Earth is billions of years old.

I doubt it. It seems much more that likely that most creationists are also Biblical literalists who believe in a six-day creation, so the Earth being billions of years older than humans is a no-no.

http://ncse.com/blog/2013/11/just-how-many-young-earth-creationists-are-there-us-0015164

80% of Americans agree with the statement that continents have been moving for millions of years and only 10% reject continential drift.

So this certainly provides evidence that believing in humans originating recently doesn't mean that one believes the Earth recently formed.

I'd say it provides evidence that those who believe that continental drift occurs and that the earth has only been around a short period of time didn't have that option presented to them in the poll.  Continental drift is a a process that is going on today at an observable albeit slow pace.  Given a choice between an option you feel is half-right and one you feel is completely wrong, which would you pick as your answer?