One-Third of Americans Reject the Idea of Evolution
December 30th, 2013I tell people in New Zealand about the Creation Museum and they don’t believe that the place exists. They think I’m making it up.
Via: Reuters:
One-third of Americans reject the idea of evolution and Republicans have grown more skeptical about it, according to a poll released on Monday.
Sixty percent of Americans say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” the telephone survey by the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project showed.
But 33 percent reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time,” Pew said in a statement.
Although this percentage remained steady since 2009, the last time Pew asked the question, there was a growing partisan gap on whether humans evolved.
“The gap is coming from the Republicans, where fewer are now saying that humans have evolved over time,” said Cary Funk, a Pew senior researcher who conducted the analysis.
The poll showed 43 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Democrats say humans have evolved over time, compared with 54 percent and 64 percent respectively four years ago.
It’s not evolution or creationism – it’s both. God created the forces of evolution, and that is all running itself now. God is like the master programmer who doesn’t have to pay attention to the program any more.
Creation/Evolution: A false dichotomy?
When I look at the evidence and the anomalies, I’m inclined to concur.
I sure don’t see anything that allows anyone on either ‘side’ to get dogmatic on my ass.
That these results are presented as a correlate of political allegiance when the only prescribed line of division is itself contrived, manipulated and maintained for the benefit of the plutocracy and the powers that sway them says more to me about the ongoing erosion through dissembly of the American psyche than it does about the consequent lack of rational thought it engenders.
Or something like that.