Darwin's Birthday Poll: Fewer Than 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution

[Caver]

Geepers, what's happening? Is truth breaking out?

But only 1 in 4 Church attendees believe in biblical creation:doh

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491345,00.html


Darwin's Birthday Poll: Fewer Than 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution

A new poll released just in time for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday found only 39 percent of Americans say they "believe in the theory of evolution" and just 24 percent of those who attend church weekly believe in the explanation for the origin of life.

The Gallup survey, released Wednesday, found a quarter of those polled do not believe in evolution, and 36 percent say they don't have an opinion either way.

So, we don't believe in either Intelligent Design or Evolution

So, if you don't have a college degree, you don't believe in evolution.:thumb(I think)

But, if you do have a degree you do overwhelmingly believe in evolution. :doh:doh

The blind leading the blind....

Oh Lord, the smarter we get the blinder we get. Down is up and up is down and :nope

[I'mready]

Just 21 percent of respondents who had up to a high school level of education believe in evolution, compared with 74 percent of those with postgraduate degrees.




Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

[Barachem]

As a postgraduate i firmly believe in living creation being only a few thousands of years old.
The theory of evolution is a crock, it does not and cannot precisely explain how supposed genetic changes occurred, something that should be a jiffy if it had happened.
Often proponents of evolution will claim that somehow a defunct gene mutated into something useful.
If shown the evidence of the fossil record, they then jump on the punctuated band-wagon, which only makes the odds against that happening bigger.
Somehow they just want to believe that there is no God or Saviour and will say anything to keep the possibility of Him away from their daily lives.
I pity them.

[FrankBeMe]

I'm proud to be one of the 26% of those with postgraduate degrees who doesn't believe in evolution.

Sometime this week, UW-Madison was or is having a big birthday bash for Darwin. :tsk

[Believer in miracles]

http://www.zenit.org/article-23664?l=english

Official: Bible and Darwin Could Both Be Right

Vatican Plans Conference to Study Evolution Theory


VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 19, 2008 (Zenit.org).- There is no a priori incompatibility between the Bible and Darwin's theory of evolution, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5705331.ece

A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. “In fact, what we mean by evolution is the world as created by God,” said Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The Vatican also dealt the final blow to speculation that Pope Benedict XVI might be prepared to endorse the theory of Intelligent Design, whose advocates credit a “higher power” for the complexities of life.

Conceding that the Church had been hostile to Darwin because his theory appeared to conflict with the account of creation in Genesis, Archbishop Ravasi argued yesterday that biological evolution and the Christian view of Creation were complementary.

Darwin’s theories had never been formally condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, Monsignor Ravasi insisted. His rehabilitation had begun as long ago as 1950, when Pius XII described evolution as a valid scientific approach to the development of humans. In 1996 John Paul II said that it was “more than a hypothesis”.

He said it was time that theologians as well as scientists grappled with the mysteries of genetic codes and “whether the diversification of life forms is the result of competition or cooperation between species”. As for the origins of Man, although we shared 97 per cent of our “genetic inheritance” with apes, the remaining 3 per cent “is what makes us unique”, including religion.

“I maintain that the idea of evolution has a place in Christian theology,” Professor Tanzella-Nitti added.

The Church of England is seeking to bring Darwin back into the fold with a page on its website paying tribute to his “forgotten” work in his local parish, to illustrate how science and Church need not be at odds. Several pages celebrate Darwin’s “significant scientific progress” to mark his bicentenary and also the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species.

The Church wants to correct the impression that Darwin’s relationship with Anglicanism was contentious. The Anglican Church as a whole did not condemn Darwin or his beliefs.

[happy2serve]

As a graduate student (who is still very much a humble student of both life and science) I am bombarded with macroevolution and natural selection. The ironic thing is that the more I study cell biology, genomics, and other types of biology, the more I realize that we have a Creator and what intelligence He has! Amazing!

It is sometimes difficult to stay in the place where I am in grad school and have to defend my beliefs a lot, even though what we study is strengthening my faith. :thinking

[seekingtruth1]

but they might belive Aliens created us...hahaha
and that we are descendanst of reptilians hahaha

[WILLIAMBEASON1842]

I sure would like to bring Darwin back from HELL and let him tell us what he thinks about evolution, now that he has had over a 100 years in eturnity to consider his belief from the other side. I suspect that the main thing he would tell us is to turn to JESUS CHRIST, THE CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE AND ALL LIFE, and not end up in HELL with him. He would also beg for water to cool his tounge and tell us that he was in torment in that place. He would beg someone to have mercy on him.

[Sari]

Evolution is just as phony as global warming!!!:hehee

[Willem3rd]

Apostacy is growing though and will be growing more and more as the end nears

Keep on praising God and pray that His Kingdom comes.

:pray