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Among the members of the National Academy of Sciences, 7% believed in God, 72.2% did not, and 20.8% were agnostic or had doubts. The study performed has been criticized, however, for defining God as "a God one may pray to in expectation of receiving an answer."[26] In 1916, 1,000 leading American scientists were randomly chosen from American Men of Science and 41.8% believed God existed, 41.5% disbelieved, and 16.7% had doubts/did not know; however when the study was replicated 80 years later using American Men and Women of Science in 1996, results were very much the same with 39.3% believing God exists, 45.3% disbelieved, and 14.5% had doubts/did not know.[27] However, these studies have been criticized for leaving lots of room for ambiguity in the questions
originally posted by: ScientiaFortisDefendit
Just as many believe that we were once monkeys. What is your point?
originally posted by: nixie_nox
a reply to: solomons path
Thank you for the star!
But the bottom ten states are:
Georgia, Tennessee, Hawaii, Alabama, Alaska, Louisiana, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Arizona.
Only 3 are blue states. California, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
I am actually surprised that New Mexico is a blue state.
My point being is that the more religious the state, the lower the education. Arizona may be the exception to the relgion. I think Arizona has the least amount of churches per capita, surprisingly.
I have lived in Arizona myself. We bolted out of there when I was 7.5 months pregnant because the doctors, the education, were sub par.
originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: Lice00
It matters because there is a concerted effort by fundamentalist Christians to subvert academic standards by getting their pseudoscientific beliefs taught along side science in the science classes. The world would be a much better place if such people weren't so hellbent on forcing their beliefs on others, as you say.
4 in 10 Americans Believe God Created Earth 10,000 Years Ago
Why does it really matter what others believe in?
It matters because there is a concerted effort by fundamentalist Christians to subvert academic standards by getting their pseudoscientific beliefs taught along side science in the science classes.
originally posted by: solomons path
originally posted by: ScientiaFortisDefendit
Just as many believe that we were once monkeys. What is your point?
So, what you are saying is you don't understand Evolutionary Theory?
Evolutionary Theory doesn't state that "we were once monkeys" that is an entirely Christian criticism of evolution. And, one that has existed for about 150 yrs. Ever heard of the "Scopes Monkey Trial". That was the prosecutions main argument against teaching evolution to HS students.
So, no . . . nobody believes "we were once monkeys". Maybe you are confusing "shared a common ancestor" with "once were"?
Monkeys are on a totally seperate branch from Hominids. "Monkeys" didn't lead to human.
However, watch NOVA's "Intelligent Design on Trial" (you can watch on the PBS site or YouTube) or the doc called "The Revisionists" (can watch on Netflix or Amazon). Plenty of christians in both of those that flat out state that the earth is between 6-10k yrs old.
Or simply visit the "Creationism Museum" in Kentucky.
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
I was suspicious that the article did not link to actual poll. I found what I believe to be the poll and noticed the questions were biased from the onset.
There were only three options and they had to choose WHICH BEST fit, even if none were a good fit.
I don't personally know anyone who believes humans were created by a higher power/god 10,000 years ago but I know several people who believe "god" created humans much longer ago.
There was no option for the latter so the next closest fit of the three limited options would be that god created man 10,000 years ago since their over-riding belief is a higher power/god created humans but the exact time is secondary but much longer than 10,000 years ago.
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originally posted by: Mura44
And my honest answer? "Yes, I believe it but not literally as in our human day to day understanding of the time period of a 24 hour day. I believe that those who wrote the original version in their original language were trying to explain things that were difficult to explain to a mostly illiterate audience, who passed on lore and knowledge and expertise in stories and word of mouth. They had an extremely limited understanding of science and proven facts to draw on. They had a great understanding of their natural world, often focused on skills and knowledge needed for survival (e.g. they knew how to grow and tend crops but not the mechanisms of cell division and genetic seed production). Their access to scientific proof was far less than ours is today.
They were writing for a simpler people (note I did not say a more stupid people). They were also writing in a language that is different to ours. We are now relying on linguists and students of theology to provide us with translations, and who is to say that literal interpretations are entirely accurately reflecting the original intentions of the writers."
This age is based on evidence from radiometric age dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples. Following the scientific revolution and the development of radiometric age dating, measurements of lead in uranium-rich minerals showed that some were in excess of a billion years old
The oldest such minerals analyzed to date – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – are at least 4.404 billion years old.[5][6][7] Comparing the mass and luminosity of the Sun to those of other stars, it appears that the solar system cannot be much older than those rocks. Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions – the oldest known solid constituents within meteorites that are formed within the solar system – are 4.567 billion years old,[8][9] giving an age for the solar system and an upper limit for the age of Earth.