One-third of Americans reject evolution, poll shows

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Interesting, why is it when I type “site:designed-dna.org intelligent” in a Google Search, I get about 127
results with the phrase “Intelligent Design”? Why is when I type “site:designed-dna.org God,” I end up
getting about 70 results, one of them trying to answer “Where Did Cain Get His Wife?”?

I’m not even going to entertain you in reading that link you gave, whether it has anything correct or not.

Creationists are notorious for quote mining from
scientific sources, rob excepts of their context,
and employ the mined passages to serve their
Creationist agenda.

Just give me something acceptable to the scientific community from a non-Creationist source.
Are peer-reviewed papers on ID suitable?
 
No, because the link regarding the supposed 70% difference between humans and chimps
leads to a blog not on this forum. I ask what the blog’s source was for that particular entry,
and I was given a whole host of sources, but supporting the whole of that blog, not the par-
ticular entry I was asking about.

Hardly a fair comparison.
There were several links to papers about chimps if you looked.
 
It describes humans in general.
There is the drug user that does not believe they have a problem.
There is the alcoholic that believes they can handle it.
There is the College professor that believes they have nothing more to learn.
Everyone to one degree or another is fooling themselves.
I ask again: What do we believe in despite what evidence to the contrary?
I do not know if I am still there, but I would be curious to know who exactly is the group you are so set against?
I am against the Creationists, and when I say “Creationists,” I speak of the "Kent Hovind"s
in the world, the radical Creationists, the kind who are actively trying the prove the Bible as
100% literal, tear down evolution, and ostracize anyone who believes in evolution.
You seem to have stuck yourself to an argument of creationists against evolution.
While neither seems defined well.
At one point you had been trying to categorize me as a creationist.
Again, pardon me for not recognizing your ambiguous position.
And what do you mean “stuck” and “While neither seems defined well.” ?
 
NEW YORK (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 (Click pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/ for the full survey).

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.

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One-third of Americans reject ANYTHING though not necessarily the same one-third in all situations.
 
I ask again: What do we believe in despite what evidence to the contrary?

I am against the Creationists, and when I say “Creationists,” I speak of the "Kent Hovind"s
in the world, the radical Creationists, the kind who are actively trying the prove the Bible as
100% literal, tear down evolution, and ostracize anyone who believes in evolution.

Again, pardon me for not recognizing your ambiguous position.
And what do you mean “stuck” and “While neither seems defined well.” ?
Am I to understand you will not accept any research that has been done who is a creationist?
 
The God is a trickster argument is bogus. He is under no obligation to reveal everything to us. What we do observe we have to properly reason.

Suppose you were walking down the beach and saw only left footprints as far as you could see? Should you conclude a trickster at work?

Quantum mechanics is quite tricky but points to God.
I just don’t think that if evolution was false then we should be finding all these forms differing
in correlation to their geological time as though generations having been morphing over long
periods of time, assuming God does set things up to throw is off the scent.

You say quantum mechanics points to God? Why not evolution?
 
I just don’t think that if evolution was false then we should be finding all these forms differing
in correlation to their geological time as though generations having been morphing over long
periods of time, assuming God does set things up to throw is off the scent.

You say quantum mechanics points to God? Why not evolution?
Because it is pointed to the god of BUC (blind unguided chance).
 
Scroll down for the reason resources. Most link to the original papers.
Still doesn’t answer. WHAT is the SOURCE for the PAGE you SENT me, specifically titled “Chimpanzee? - no more”?
 
And is that why many, if not most, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish theologians believe in evolution?
Do you think they see it? Or they have had it shoved down their throat as fact so often?

They believe it because scientists told them and they do not question. It is faith.
 
Am I to understand you will not accept any research that has been done who is a creationist?
Not by someone who has a literal interpretation of the Bible to protect.

Not saying I won’t accept what Creationists here on this forum will offer me, but
if what they are offering me comes from Creationist Studies, I do not accept it.
If a Creationists here has something to bring to the table which is accepted by
the community of REAL science, I may be interested in reading that.
 
Not by someone who has a literal interpretation of the Bible to protect.

Not saying I won’t accept what Creationists here on this forum will offer me, but
if what they are offering me comes from Creationist Studies, I do not accept it.
If a Creationists here has something to bring to the table which is accepted by
the community of REAL science, I may be interested in reading that.
I don’t get it. Regardless of motivation if they stumble upon or find a truth why won’t you accept it? Is your implied claim that science has no a priori bias?
 
And is that why many, if not most, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish theologians believe in evolution?
Unless theologians were included, this poll represents Americans. I’m still trying to figure out why it’s been turned into such a big deal over the years.

Peace,
Ed
 
Because it is pointed to the god of BUC (blind unguided chance).
No, that is your interpretation of what Evolution is about. As far as science sees, yes,
it is in part by unguided chance, but more often than not probably, what we see as un-
guided chance may be God, because science doesn’t detect God, nor is it meant to.

It is the dumb people who impose the
atheistic implication on Evolution, not
the other way around.
 
Do you think they see it? Or they have had it shoved down their throat as fact so often?

They believe it because scientists told them and they do not question. It is faith.
There must be a way of reconciling evolution with Creation if people like Billy Graham, most Orthodox rabbis, and, I believe, many leaders in the Catholic Church accept evolution as a valid scientific theory. Otherwise, religious people would not believe in it no matter what scientists have said. The theory of evolution is taught in yeshivas and Catholic universities.
 
No, that is your interpretation of what Evolution is about. As far as science sees, yes,
it is in part by unguided chance, but more often than not probably, what we see as un-
guided chance may be God, because science doesn’t detect God, nor is it meant to.

It is the dumb people who impose the
atheistic implication on Evolution, not
the other way around.
Ugh no - evolutionists all go with blind unguided chance. Right, science by its own definition has a limited say about the universe. It is restricted by our 5 senses, 3 dimensions and time. Is your claim that God set evolution up to unguided chance? Given these two choices I fall in the design camp. The mind of God much like an artist created and designed it. Design has purpose.

Are you serious? Most biologists are atheist.
 
There must be a way of reconciling evolution with Creation if people like Billy Graham, most Orthodox rabbis, and, I believe, many leaders in the Catholic Church accept evolution as a valid scientific theory. Otherwise, religious people would not believe in it no matter what scientists have said. The theory of evolution is taught in yeshivas and Catholic universities.
An argument from popularity?

Be careful here. The Catholic church does not support evolution without the hand of God. It accepts micro-evolution as most people do. Creative ability for novel features is the issue. (also Humani Generis with regard to polygenism)
 
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