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Creationists compose between a third and half of the US population,
Where did you get this statistic, through where I have been, and what I have seen, I know only a few creationists, that give life much thought, and don't go by the term "if you believe creation stories are true, then that means you're a creationist". The term "creationist" is really there to describe someone trying to prove biblical passages to be true, more specifically the first book, aptly titled Genesis. The people you talk about simply accept creation on the basis of disagreements with the predominant theory, or partiality to the truth contained in the Bible. Statistics such as these are not very truthful usually, are based on preconceived notions, agendas, and false premises. My Bio teacher gave my brother the book : "Bones of Contention". The author wrote about exactly this material.
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and yet only a tiny fraction of the scientific community (at best, a few percent) (anyone have any exact statistics here? It's been a while, and I don't have time to track down the latest survey results). This should tell you something.
You didn't finish the thought, but I get the picture. You probably meant to say something like:
"and yet only a fraction of the sci. community believes that the creation passage written a very long time ago to be true."
And why should this be something of intrigue, debate, and even skepticism? The scientific community, probably refferring to the people that read journals, and magazines about
science should not be bothered with an old story that when applied factually, or fundamentally to life's origin, makes a great deal of science and observation truly useless. This would make the scientific community quite uncomfortable as they recline to read the latest on geological finds in support of their lovely theories, Such a simple, easy to read, and highly avalible story, that most of America is in the 'know' about, ranks with Dr. Seuss, and Greek Mythology, is
against what they have become fond of hearing about, proving, providing evidence for, and degrading themselves, with the ranks of organisms, not included in phylum chordata makes life more meaningful than the belief that humans will drift away eventually. Maybe I enjoy the possibility of being much more important than what my bio teacher would tell me, maybe I know that there is a little more to life than scientific reasoning, rational thinking and these secular traditions making what we know as
creation the laughing stock of this communtity, well the community means nothing to me, or the few who have taken the path to righteousness, who have attained much more glory than any human who found "lucy" could ever have.
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