Replies to post #63745 on Biotech Values

[quantumdot]

OT - poll numbers. "These numbers are truly astounding".

Scary, yes. Astounding... unfortunately no.

[rstor1]

Creationist/Intelligent Design

The questions were poorly phrased and the results are worthless, IMO.

1- Humans developed over millions of years, God guided
2- Humans developed over millions of years, God had no part
3- God created humans within the last 10,000 years

#3 is not an ambiguous question. It is pure creationism.

#2 is not an ambiguous question. It is pure evolution, but with a twist - it requires atheism.

#1 is ambiguous and a religious person would choose it even if they believed that evolution is an appropriate description of how species evolve.

The religious person would argue that God had everything to do with it since he/she set the whole mechanism in motion by establishing physical laws for the universe.

That said, I am also surprised that the survey had such high percentages of #3.

Regards,
Bob

[quantumdot]

OT - polls. I suspect we are going to get censored shortly (and perhaps rightly so given the First Amendment separation of church and biotech message boards), but I love these two from a Newsweek poll re US population.

Adults who believe that God performs miracles: 84%
Adults who believe that the miracles in the Bible actually happened: 79%

LOL, I guess that means that some of those same adults who believe in an omnipotent being don't believe he would use his powers to help out Jesus and his disciples.

And, my all-time favorite...

12% of US adults believe that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife!