The Orgin of Human Life Poll, split by nationality

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

This inspired me to create this poll.

Concidering the fact that the Internet is dominated by atheists, the winner is obvious, but I wanted to do it anyway.

[Donerail]

I've had a 1st grade science education, yes.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Humans evolved from other life forms. More or less advanced is a value judgment and altogether irrelevant to the question at hand.

[John Dibble]

Humans evolved from other life forms. More or less advanced is a value judgment and altogether irrelevant to the question at hand.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Is it 100,000 years or 10,000 years?  I guess I've heard the question posed both ways. There are quite a few young earth creationists who believe it's been only 6 or 7 thousand years - but many others that allow for both those cave paintings made tens of thousands of years ago and also believe in Adam and Eve.
I'll vote neither, as I think there may be a great deal of truth in both ideas: that humans have evolved and that they have been in some sense specially created by God.

[afleitch]

Humans evolved from other life forms. More or less advanced is a value judgment and altogether irrelevant to the question at hand.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I worded it the same way the survey did, so don't complain to me.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I answered with option 3, but I don't necessarily think that there has never been evolution in some form or that the earth is only a few thousand years old.  I also don't think the six days of Creation were necessarily literal 24-hour periods.

[Free Palestine]

Lol, creationists on the Atlas Forum.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Lol, creationists on the Atlas Forum.

Lol, elitism on the Atlas Forum.

[afleitch]

Lol, creationists on the Atlas Forum.

Lol, elitism on the atlas.

Is science now elitist?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Lol, creationists on the Atlas Forum.

Lol, elitism on the atlas.

Is science now elitist?

No, but believing that someone having a different idea of the creation of the earth and refering to all of them as back asswards cavemen is.

[afleitch]

Lol, creationists on the Atlas Forum.

Lol, elitism on the atlas.

Is science now elitist?

No, but believing that someone having a different idea of the creation of the earth and refering to all of them as back asswards cavemen is.

Well if someone thinks human beings were placed on the earth fully formed as recently as the poll suggests you are backwards as it is contrary to every science that concerns itself with us, the earth and time.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Either way I sound like a moron and you sound like a fundie. No wonder Mikado left the atheism "faith".

[© tweed]

Lol, creationists on the Atlas Forum.

Lol, elitism on the atlas.

Is science now elitist?

sure it is, most top scientists are of the elite, and have historically been men, etc.

[danny]

This inspired me to create this poll.

Concidering the fact that the Internet is dominated by atheists, the winner is obvious, but I wanted to do it anyway.

Nearly everyone uses the internet, so it can't be dominated by atheists.

Considering the small percentage of atheists in America is so small, most Americans who believe in evolution are theists.

[afleitch]

Either way I sound like a moron and you sound like a fundie. No wonder Mikado left the atheism "faith".

Let's put it another way. Is the truth 'fundamentalist'? Should evolutionary science, genetics, biology, geology, archaeology, history and IIRC about 100-200 branches of science that support evolution and the age of the earth be thrown under a bus to satisfysome Christians who choose not to engage their brain when trying to reconcile our understanding of the world with their faith?

[Associate Justice PiT]

Either way I sound like a moron and you sound like a fundie. No wonder Mikado left the atheism "faith".

Let's put it another way. Is the truth 'fundamentalist'? Should evolutionary science, genetics, biology, geology, archaeology, history and IIRC about 100-200 branches of science that support evolution and the age of the earth be thrown under a bus to satisfysome Christians who choose not to engage their brain when trying to reconcile our understanding of the world with their faith?

     Every significant branch of science has generated findings that require that the universe be millions if not billions of years old. If the fundamentalist Christians realized the implications of their world view, they'd forgo the use of modern technology and the rest of us would be spared the bother.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Either way, you are treating them in an intolerant way. Fundamentalists always look upon those who believe differently as inferior, and they hate everyone but themselves.

There only seems to be Fundie Christians and Fundie Atheists. Are there Fundie Jews/Hindus/Buddhists/Tribal Religions/Bahai'/Rastafarfians/Pagans?

[afleitch]

Either way, you are treating them in an intolerant way. Fundamentalists always look upon those who believe differently as inferior, and they hate everyone but themselves.

There only seems to be Fundie Christians and Fundie Atheists. Are there Fundie Jews/Hindus/Buddhists/Tribal Religions/Bahai'/Rastafarfians/Pagans?

Again I ask you; what is fundamentalist about truth? Is seeking to argue for that truth against ignorance 'intolerant'?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Either way, you are treating them in an intolerant way. Fundamentalists always look upon those who believe differently as inferior, and they hate everyone but themselves.

There only seems to be Fundie Christians and Fundie Atheists. Are there Fundie Jews/Hindus/Buddhists/Tribal Religions/Bahai'/Rastafarfians/Pagans?

Again I ask you; what is fundamentalist about truth? Is seeking to argue for that truth against ignorance 'intolerant'?

It's not truth from the perspective of much of the world.

[afleitch]

Either way, you are treating them in an intolerant way. Fundamentalists always look upon those who believe differently as inferior, and they hate everyone but themselves.

There only seems to be Fundie Christians and Fundie Atheists. Are there Fundie Jews/Hindus/Buddhists/Tribal Religions/Bahai'/Rastafarfians/Pagans?

Again I ask you; what is fundamentalist about truth? Is seeking to argue for that truth against ignorance 'intolerant'?

It's not truth from the perspective of much of the world.

It doesn't cease being truth because some people don't believe in it. When man was a hunter-gatherer it was true even though we had no comprehension of it.

[RI]

Your choices aren't exactly mutually exclusive.

[John Dibble]

Either way, you are treating them in an intolerant way. Fundamentalists always look upon those who believe differently as inferior, and they hate everyone but themselves.

There only seems to be Fundie Christians and Fundie Atheists. Are there Fundie Jews/Hindus/Buddhists/Tribal Religions/Bahai'/Rastafarfians/Pagans?

Again I ask you; what is fundamentalist about truth? Is seeking to argue for that truth against ignorance 'intolerant'?

It's not truth from the perspective of much of the world.

There are still people who think the Earth is flat, even though evidence to the contrary is widely available to them. The roundness of the world is not truth from their perspective - would you give the same defense to their ideas as you are giving creationists?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Either way I sound like a moron and you sound like a fundie. No wonder Mikado left the atheism "faith".

Let's put it another way. Is the truth 'fundamentalist'? Should evolutionary science, genetics, biology, geology, archaeology, history and IIRC about 100-200 branches of science that support evolution and the age of the earth be thrown under a bus to satisfysome Christians who choose not to engage their brain when trying to reconcile our understanding of the world with their faith?

Whether or not they believe in evolution isn't the same as this. There are Christians that engage their brain a certain way and believe they can reconcile it by questioning the science behind evolution. There are others who just say "because the Bible told me so."  There are Christians that try to understand how their faith can make room for evolution. And then there are others who believe in evolution and don't think deeply about how to reconcile it with their faith. And still others who don't know if evolution is true and don't care.