CBS News has released the results of their new poll on evolution vs. creation.
According to the poll, 51% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form (there was no evolution, at least for humans). Another 30% believe that God guided evolution to get humans to their present form. Only 15% believe that evolution got us here without any help from God.
The results must be dismaying to the media and the liberal education establishment, after decades of hammering evolution as accepted fact into the brains of American children. They may have taken God out of the public schools, but He has managed to stubbornly keep His fingers in the evolution/creation debate.
The only bright spot for the die-hard evolution-only folks (who include a higher percentage of liberals, non-churchgoers, and college-educated people than average Americans) is that the numbers have shifted slightly in favor of evolution than the same poll taken last November. In that poll, 55% believed God created humans, 27% believed God directed evolution, and 13% believed in evolution only.
WorldNetDaily reported, in their coverage of the CBS News poll, that AOL conducted its own unscientific poll in response to the CBS News poll. AOL had a fairly even split among the three options. At the end of their article, WND gave a representative AOL discussion board comment from an evolution believer and a creation believer that sum up the debate beautifully:
"How can anyone disagree with evolution with so much evidence out there?" asked one AOL user in an associated messageboard. "I don't see any evidence of how God got here."
"Did God create liberals?" asks another. "No. Liberals clearly evolved, by accident, from apes. Dumb apes. The average American liberal shows no hint of intelligent design. No wonder liberals are pro-Darwin."
2 comments:
Oh wise Pupster, you are posting a subject that is dear to my heart.
Evolution is such a waste of time since there is no evidence of the evolutionary links between ape and man.
I think more about the theories of biopoiesis which suggest that life rose from the sea... That this first archetypical cell from which everything else supposedly evolved... just came about one day.
I have a post on my site called "Biopoietic Justice" which better presents my case, but I can condense it to the following:
Which came first, the ribosomal RNA that produces the cell wall proteins...
Or the cell wall that protects the chemical integrity of the cell, allowing the ribosomal RNA to function?
These are [interdependent] chemical structures that exist only because there was a living cell that produced them. There is no way that they could have been formed independently.
And I haven't even mentioned DNA, messenger RNA, chloroplasts, spacial arrangement, etc. which are also necessary for a cell to feed, function, and reproduce.
Its the "which came first, the chicken or the egg" question revisited.
The fact is, if you believe a complex thing such as a living cell just came about in a universe where the molecular tendency is towards chaos and randomness... then you must really want to believe it. But if you first choose to believe there is no God, or that its inconvenient to believe... then I guess you have to explain your existence some way.
Its important to remember, contrary to what we usually hear, that very smart men come down on [both] sides of the issue... which suggests to me that "smart" has nothing to do with it. Its a simple choice that men have been making for a long, long time.
Chris,
You're so right. Some smart men say the chicken came first, and other smart men say the egg did.
It's all faith. Many have faith in God and out of that faith, they see the evidence of His presence everywhere. The strict evolutionists have faith that there is no God, because they don't (let themselves) see physical evidence of God's existence. To say, "There is nothing outside the material world," which the evolutionists do, is to believe something that they can't prove. It's a belief that they try not to allow to be challenged.
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