Thread: Gallup Poll: 4 in 10 believe man created by God 10,000 years ago

Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle...

So much money spent on public education, and this is what we get? Sad.

Absolutely astonishing. The programmer for the company I work for is a smart guy in some respects but he believes everything started 6,000 years ago. According to him all scientists are wrong, all astronomers, all archeologists, all anthropologists, historians, chemists, physicists, all of them are dead wrong because they don't follow the literal scriptures. And don't even get him started on plate tectonics!

Originally Posted by matt321

So much money spent on public education, and this is what we get? Sad.

Nothing wrong with the belief in a Supreme Being, they're living a life that they feel is fulfilling. Why not live and let live?

Originally Posted by billyjeff2

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle...

...or nephew!

And the worlds flat and when are you guys gonna believe it? That round thing is a giant hoax like the trip to the moon years ago.

that's not the end of the story though - the graph seems to indicate an evolution in the public opinion. Give it few hundred thousand years and may be we'll know if being 'a Christian nation' is beneficial to survival

The one thing that I've never been able to understand is if the laws of nature are dictated by God, and adaptation and evolution are the way that nature works, then why can't these processes be attributed to the hand of God. I'm not necessarily the religious type, but I believe in God, and don't understand why science can't help us better understand him-- the same way we use it to gain knowledge of other things.

Originally Posted by gugi

that's not the end of the story though - the graph seems to indicate an evolution in the public opinion. Give it few hundred thousand years and may be we'll know if being 'a Christian nation' is beneficial to survival

Well, sure, that MIGHT happen. That is, if you believe in all that "evolution" hooey!

Originally Posted by chay2K

The one thing that I've never been able to understand is if the laws of nature are dictated by God, and adaptation and evolution are the way that nature works, then why can't these processes be attributed to the hand of God. I'm not necessarily the religious type, but I believe in God, and don't understand why science can't help us better understand him-- the same way we use it to gain knowledge of other things.

Yours is what some would call the "blended" version. But what kinda gets my goat is the part about so many folks believing human beings were created only about 10,000 years ago. Ain't nothing in science that supports that idea.