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JonF
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Message 6 of 32 (93494)
03-20-2004 10:19 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Buzsaw
03-19-2004 7:58 PM


The site is certainly not friendly to Christianity, but it acknowledges the rise in creationism
Well, according to the Gallup polls, which that site misrepresented, there hasn't been any significant change since 1982. The numbers are available at several sites, including http://www.unl.edu/...courses/current/creation/evol-poll.htm and http://web.grcc.cc.mi.us/mseei/related_news_and_events.htm and the question was:
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Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings -- 1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, 2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process, 3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so?
(sorry about the huge space coming up, it appears to be a board bug with tables):











































Humans developed, with God guidingHumans developed, but God had no part in processGod created humans in present formOTHER (vol.)/No opinion
2001 Feb 19-2137%12%45%6%
1999 Aug 24-2640%9%47%4%
1997 Nov 6-939%10%44%7%
1993 Jun35%11%47%7%
198238%9%44%9%
And in graphical format:

{Rescaled graphic, to restore page width to normal. Getting rid of the space before the table is beyond my knowledge - Adminnemooseus}
From this I draw several conclusions:
  1. A depressingly large number of Americans believe in recent special creation of humans.
  2. The number of Americans that believe in some form of evolution of humans and millions of years of human development (that is, all those who picked one of the "Humans developed ..." choices) is consistently slightly (although probably not significantly) greater than the number of Americans who believe in no evolution of humans.
  3. The numbers of Americans believing in one or another of the choices has not changed significantly since 1982.

IOW, there is no "rise of creationism" in the beliefs of the American public.
Those good folks simply want to preserve the free exercise half of the first amendment.
Who's infringing free exercise of First Amendment rights? (Which rights, BTW, dod not include saying anything you want wherever you wish, e.g. teaching whatever you want in public schools).
[This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 03-20-2004]

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JonF
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Message 16 of 32 (93592)
03-20-2004 6:50 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by Lindum
03-20-2004 5:36 PM


Re: What do you expect?
Is this really what happens in US schools? Educated in the UK, I recall no teaching of evolution theory, but I was forced to read Genesis at primary school (4-11 years old).
In reality, Evolution is taught at most but not all U.S. public schools to children in their early teens, always as part of a more-widely focused course (general science or biology), and it's unlikely that a student will be exposed to it for more than a term (half a school year) or so before college. Of course, there's going to be a few terms in which they are introduced to astronomy, physics, geology, paleontology, and similar sciences that the YEC's don't like.
Study of Genesis is rare in U.S. public schools but is found occasionally, in compararive religion classes, in conjunction with studying other religious works.

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