national poll: Americans are uncertain creationists

[Mr. Morden]

A poll by the BioLogos Foundation which poll tests various nuances of people's beliefs on the origin of man, testing how certain people are about various propositions:

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[IceSpear]

These results actually aren't as bad as I expected.

[King]

Like most things, America is a center-right nation until you get detailed in questions and widdle it down.

[Mr. Morden]

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.

[DemPGH]

Overall it's a mixed bag, but I would have feared worse. Only 37% think God created the world in six 24 hour days (the Bible is pretty clear about that), but 51% think the Bible is without error? That doesn't square either, but if 51% think the Bible is without error, that's not good. Neither is 56% who think Adam and Eve were real people.

It isn't news that people don't think very hard about religion.

[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.

[Consciously Unconscious]

It's kind of scary that almost 20% of Americans believe that only creationism should be taught in schools.

[pbrower2a]

We Americans on the whole are becoming the great joke within both the Free World and the First World. We may be as few as five years of being simply a joke of both as we lose our freedom and our prosperity.

[Kraxner]

We Americans on the whole are becoming the great joke within both the Free World and the First World. We may be as few as five years of being simply a joke of both as we lose our freedom and our prosperity.

Are you describing europe? Because europe is in a worse economic situation than america currently, private citizens can't own guns. And theres restrictions on free speech, even the act of offending somehow can get you arrested, especially in Britain.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/13/jail-someone-for-being-offensive-twitter-facebook

[Adam Griffin]

We Americans on the whole are becoming the great joke within both the Free World and the First World. We may be as few as five years of being simply a joke of both as we lose our freedom and our prosperity.

Are you describing europe? Because europe is in a worse economic situation than america currently, private citizens can't own guns. And theres restrictions on free speech, even the act of offending somehow can get you arrested, especially in Britain.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/13/jail-someone-for-being-offensive-twitter-facebook

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

We Americans on the whole are becoming the great joke within both the Free World and the First World. We may be as few as five years of being simply a joke of both as we lose our freedom and our prosperity.

Are you describing europe? Because europe is in a worse economic situation than america currently, private citizens can't own guns. And theres restrictions on free speech, even the act of offending somehow can get you arrested, especially in Britain.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/13/jail-someone-for-being-offensive-twitter-facebook

Your continued cluelessness is a real treat.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Kraxner's right, I'm currently posting from prison for insulting Kate Middleton's fashion sense If only I had listened!

[pbrower2a]

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.

[GaussLaw]

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.

[Deus Naturae]

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.

[GaussLaw]

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.

[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?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

We're down to 68% thinking God has anything to do with humanity?  Whoopie!  That's in line with about 3/10 being non-religiouses. 

But 56% think Adam and Eve were real people?  Ugh...