Creation, Evolution, and the United States Public's Views on the Origins of Life

A recent report paints a picture of the American public's beliefs on the origins of human life.

By U.S. News Staff

February 6, 2009 RSS Feed Print
  • 40-50: Approximate percentage who over the past two decades said they believe in a biblical creationist account of the origins of life
  • 58: Percent said "creationism was definitely or probably true" in a 2005 poll
  • 26: Percent believed evolution and creationism were both true in a 1999 poll
  • 38: Percent favored "teaching creationism instead of evolution" in a 2005 poll
  • 48: Percent said evolution was both well accepted by the scientific community and supported by evidence in a 2007 poll

Sources: Pew Research Center

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How can anyone possibly say that there is no proof (historical evidence) that evolution as Darwin suggested is true? What kind of ignorance is it to say that? How close minded must one be to not even -know- of proofs and dare say "Maybe it's true"

There's millions or proofs. The fact that all lifeforms function the same way (the universal genetic code, the fact that you can take a gene from a human and shove it in a bacteria and get something that works out of it is amazing), all animals look the same when embryos, vestigial organs like muscles around ears in humans, archeological findings/geology, molecular evolution/philogeny, genetic homologies (if man is so special why is it 99 percent chimpanzee?)..........and in fact, if man is so perfect why is it that we have more viral DNA (some say as much as 50%) in us than we have "useful" DNA in us (2% exons or less), natural selection and evolution pressure like bacterias becomming antibiotic resistant, etc etc

Avator 2:53AM July 25, 2009

Take a look at Revelation. You'll find that the events described suggest a total end to time and the universe. "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea."-Revelation 21:1.

Problem with Roisman. The creator, destoyer, and preserver are different gods. Another thing, if these different characteristics were describing one particular god that god would be in constant contradiction and have a chaotic mind as the destructive aspect would try to annul whatever the creative aspect had made while the preserving aspect would be trying to prevent the actions of the destructive aspect. Yes, that most likely is a run-on sentence and yes it is confusing. My suggestion, try to ignore the possible grammatical error and look at it a part at a time. The God of the Bible on the otherhand doesn't contradict Himself. He never changes. He is the God of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Mankind may change from one moment to the next, but He does not. Therefore, there is an end and if there is an end the is also a beginning. Isn't is odd that the beginning of the Bible starts with the words "in the beginning" and ends with a book that describes an end to this world?

Dr. Shade of NC 8:57PM February 13, 2009

I do not know how many kinds of Christians accept the "Creationism" story for the beginning of our world, and all the natural rythyms of our lives and being....east Indian culture does admit to having a three fold god that is ,a Creator,a Destroyer and a Preserver which is far more logical and systematic than the Creationism myth.....the other problem in this discussion is that madern science and technology likes to assume that there is always a beginning and and an ending to everything.....our solar system and our universe has no end in sight and neither has time.....

Steve S. Roisman of CA 1:23PM February 08, 2009

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