Re: New Poll: More Americans Believe in Devil than Darwin

On Nov 30, 2:37 am, richardalanforr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Nov 30, 1:22 am, catshark <catsh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From the article:

The poll of 2,455 U.S. adults from Nov 7 to 13 found that 82 percent
of those surveyed believed in God, a figure unchanged since the
question was asked in 2005.

It further found that 79 percent believed in miracles, 75 percent
in heaven, while 72 percent believed that Jesus is God or the Son
of God. Belief in hell and the devil was expressed by 62 percent. ...

Only 42 percent of those surveyed said they believed in Darwin's
theory which largely informs how biology and related sciences are
approached. ...

I don't "believe in" Darwin's theory (or even our modern understanding
of evolutionary theory) any more than I "believe in" gravity or
relativity theory.

Mind you, I have never come across anyone who said that they "believed
in" evolutionary theory, and I know a lot of evolutionary biologists.
It makes me wonder who this 42% of the people surveyed are.

They're (largely christian) fundamentalists who view evolution and
creation as equal but diametrically opposed religious doctrines
(creation being the "godly" doctrine and evolution being the doctrine
put forth by God's enemy, Satan). They pretty much think that reality
is a democracy, and that if they get enough people to be on
creationism's side, they can vote evolution out of existence. No,
seriously, they do. I grew up a christian fundy.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
skyeyes at dakotacom dot net

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