Creationism, God & Evolution - Poll

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/40-of-americans-still-bel_n_799078.html

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A new Gallup poll, released Dec. 17, reveals that 40 percent of Americans still believe that humans were created by God within the last 10,000 years. This number is slightly down from a previous high of 47 percent in 1993 and 1999.

Another 38 percent of respondents believe that humans have evolved from more basic organisms but with God playing a role in the process.

A mere 16 percent of respondents subscribed to the belief of "secular evolution": that humans have evolved with no divine guidance. However, this number has nearly doubled from nine percent of respondents in a poll from 1982.

The poll also revealed that beliefs in creationism and evolution are strongly related to levels of education attained. When results are narrowed to those with college degrees, only 37 percent of respondents maintain beliefs in creationism. Meanwhile, the belief in evolution without the aid of God rises to 21 percent.

With regards to political affiliation, a majority of Republicans (52 percent) subscribe to creationist beliefs. This is compared to only 34 percent among Democrats and Independents.

Views on human origins vary based on church attendance. Of those who attend church on a weekly basis, 60 percent believe in creationism while a mere 2 percent subscribe to "secular evolution". These numbers are flipped among those who rarely or never attend religious services. In this group, only 24 percent believe in creationism while 39 percent believe in evolution without divine guidance. This represents the only subset of data reported where "secular evolution" beats out creationism.

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[legion1a]

@bubsadoozy

What it all boils down to is this; it doesn't matter if there are thousands of people praying in a Church, or one person praying alone in their room.

There is nothing to pray to, it's all a delusion.

There is not Supernatural Being sitting on a throne; waiting with breathless anticipation for your next prayer.

God did not make man, man evolved.

Man created every single version of God; the God that you know is correct, and all of the other versions that you know are not.

[legion1a]

@Guitarvirtuoso666 The Bible is not a moral guide!

It tells us to kill people for picking up sticks on the Sabbath.

Burn our daughters to death if they date outside of our faith, and kill our sons if they disobey.

The 10 Commandments are about glorifying God; the ones that do reflect morality are common sense and are observed without Jesus.

If you were to read the Bible you would see it is immoral.

You can disprove every religion; which disproves any deity observed on Earth.

[DiamondKingPin]

@ilreput1 What does the earth age have to do with God being conjecture? Anyway, people that promote isotope test accuracy admit that assumptions must be made about the quantity of various elements present at the time of rock formation as a basis for starting the timeline and that the meteorite materials used were created at the same time as earth. You already knew that.. I guess you'd object to the terminology "created".. let's say when they magically appeared or evolved out of nothing.

[ilreput1]

@DiamondKingPin Please read about the age of the Earth and you will see that carbon dating is only one small tool for finding the age. Evolution is a FACT. God is conjecture.

[DiamondKingPin]

Million year old fossils.. and how did you arrive at that number.. carbon dating? which isn't reliable beyond 6000 year old readings (I'll give you 10 000 if you really want it). Actually I read an article that stated carbon dating SUGGESTS the world is about 10 000 (secular news btw) I'm not saying dinosaurs didn't exist, they did, but we don't know in what period of time... since they're absolutely extinct we say "oh, it must have been millions of years ago". evolution theory is conjecture

[onepiecefan74]

I'm Christian but I don't know why so many Christians believe the earth is only 10,000 years old. The bible has no dates or timeline and it says nowhere that the earth is only 10,000 years old.

[420MusicFiend]

lastly, to those who take it literally it can be discounted right off the bat. Genesis 1 says life came before light. Cosmology and Biology tell us that a star (meaning light) must have exploded and died fusing hydrogen and helium into the heavier elements like oxygen when mixed with the hydrogen in our atmosphere created water the pre-cursor to all biological life. So the bible is not literal. It's ramblings of ancient scientific illiteracy, fueled by the fear of death, nothing more!

[420MusicFiend]

Even the people who voted on which books (of which no originals remain) were included into the cannons almost certainly did not take them literally. Many books were discounted (Book of Judas, Mary Magellan etc...) and that is what there are so many contradictions on the same accounts. The exodus never took place, no evidence has ever been found. The walls of Jericho fell centuries before Joshua and more, it's just bullshit and they didn't count on modern science and archaeology.

[pcc1703]

WOW!! You are reading the Bible. Read Matthew chapters 23 & 24.

[pcc1703]

Sorry my good fellow. I'm not making excuses for my faith. I'm being honest when I say you and everyone of us has a choice. You can believe if yo want to or not. IT IS YOUR CHOICE. I choose Christ. By the way. The reason came to earth was to save sinners and if you really read the Bible you will see the prophecy being fulfilled in the New Testament. Christ is the only one who died on the cross to save your soul. Here again, It is your choice. Matthew 23 & 24. End times are here.

[thedutchman01]

@pcc1703 2/2

Sorry, I said Leviticus, I meant Deuteronomy.

Ordering undutiful sons to be stoned to death, at Deuteronomy 21:18-21

[thedutchman01]

@pcc1703 "You have to understand the Bible in order to believe it. People have a hrd time with with that"

I don't want to understand a book that commands me to kill my child for not listening to me. As commanded in Leviticus.

I don't want to understand a book that endorses slavery.

I don't want to pray to a god that states that if a woman becomes pregnant by rape she should just marry the rapist.

You keep making excuses for your faith. I have no reason to do that for my atheism.