Are you in the 15%?

And still nothing about dinos. How sad. Some very strident people lately have been attempting to make America, and later the world, into a narrowly focused version of Christianity. It is a view that actually has little or nothing to do with the Bible. If they had their way Matthew 7:12 would end up on the cutting room floor and Exodus and Leviticus would be the law of the land. And while there’s no danger of them gaining real power any time soon there is a danger. And it is a danger because some people aren’t just ignorant, they are willfully ignorant. They wake each day and put blinders on. Anything that might cause them to suffer from conscious thought is kept from their sight. Don’t get me wrong, there are very many smart people who believe in God. Find a Franciscan monk if you don’t believe me. It is not hard to say “God exists, the universe exists and I believe that the former created the latter.” See? You don’t need to toss science out the window at all. That simple statement still allows for evolution and everything else. Nor does it require dogma to support it. It is a true statement of faith which still allows for facts and reason. After all, if there is a God why did He give us the capacity to learn if He didn’t want us to use it?

85% of Americans disagree with the above paragraph.

According to a recent Gallup Poll, only 15% of Americans “believe” in evolution. 46% believe in strict creationism. Never mind that it doesn’t make any sense if you spend more than a minute thinking about it. That’s what they “believe.”



The Most Religious Americans Are Most Likely to Be Creationists

Gallup’s question wording explicitly frames the three alternatives in terms of God’s involvement in the process of human development, making it less than surprising to find that the more religious the American, the more likely he or she is to choose the creationist viewpoint.


Majority of Republicans Are Creationists


Those With Postgraduate Education Least Likely to Believe in Creationist Explanation







It is at odds with basic common sense. Look around you and you will spot proof of evolution in action. Animals in one part of the country are different from the same species in another part because they had to evolve to adapt to their surroundings. The same applies to humans, unless you think that Inuits look and act exactly like Zulus. In which case there is no hope for you.

Simply put the environment acts on something and then that something acts back and both are changed and then that changed state acts on something and so on. It’s not that hard people, you can figure it out.



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