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Butterflytyrant
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07-06-2011 3:01 AM


Expressed as a percentage, how sure are you that your particular version of creation is correct? This is open to all. Whether it be the Big Bang and Evolution, Young Earth Creation, Old Earth Creation, ID or any other interpretation of the scripture. This is a question of the specific version you follow.
The second part of the question is - expressed as a percentage, how many people who share your particular faith (or perceived scientific theory like evolution, ID etc) share your version or interpretation of that faith (or scientific theory etc)? e.g there are many Christians on this website, however, some are YEC, some are OEC etc so there may be many people who share the faith, but a small percentage who share that particular version of the faith.
The objective of this question is to see what sort of unity there is amongst the different groups and where peoples affiliations lay.
Feel free to elaborate on why you have attributed these percentages.
For myself, I believe the Big Bang and Evolution to be the forces of creation.
I would put a percentage of 50% on the Big Bang because I am not well versed in the theory but I trust the judgement of people who are.
Evolution I would say 99%. I leave a 1% margin because no theory can be proven to be 100% true and the evidnce appears to be overwhelming. I also have not found any credible opposing theory.
I would say that 90% of the people who follow the Big Bang Theory and Evolution believe the same version that I do. I have left a 10% margin as there are variations in some elements of the theories but the majority are unified. I do not believe that there is anyone on this forum who would have any significant differences in their answer if we were asked to describe our interpretation of Evolutionary Theory.
Here are the two questions:
  1. Describe which type of creation you believe brought the universe into existence. Examples of possible answers are the Big Bang and Evolution, Young Earth Creation, Old Earth Creation, ID or any other interpretation of the scripture. Be as detailed as you like.
  2. Expressed as a percentage, what is your confidence factor that your belief is correct, where 100% expresses complete certainty and 0% expresses no certainty at all.
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