what percent of Christians in America are "young earth"?

Question

in other words what % of the Christian population in the United States thinks that the Universe is less than 10,000 years old.

and is that number growing or shrinking?

any links to such information would be helpful

Answer 1

I fear its growing.

The education system gets worse and worse and the mass media is dumbing down as a result of trying to please the lowest common demoninator.

Answer 2

I don't know what the percentage is, but I don't think there's any doubt that the number is shrinking. It's pretty difficult to appeal to educated young people in the 21st century with idea that Satan placed fossils all over the world to trick us into thinking that the world is older than the bible says it is, that carbon dating is a Satanic trick, that the Grand Canyon was caused by Noah's Flood, or that God once stopped the Sun in the sky so that some human beings would have more light to kill other human beings.

Add talking donkeys and serpents, and you've got a message that's pretty hard to sell to educated young people.

Answer 3

Polls taken last year showed that 45 percent of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. Only 26 percent believe in the central tenet of evolution, that all life descended from a single ancestor.

Washington Post September 25, 2005

Answer 4

While most of them probably haven't thought enough to decide, you can measure it by looking at the growth and decline in christian church numbers in America

Answer 5

I dunno, but, as an astronomy buff, I do know that we can see light from stars that has taken over 14 billion years ago to reach earth.

That is a scientific fact.

Geologists find elements in the earth's crust measuring several million years ago also.

Answer 6

45% Fundamentalist Christians
45% Other theists
10% atheists/agnostics

I don't think the ratio is changing much.

Answer 7

I'm a Christian (Catholic), and I definately think the universe is older than we can comprehend.

Answer 8

Y'know, I asked God what to make of all this stuff, creationism, evolution, young earth, old earth...

Know what He said?

"Don't worry abut it now... I can tell you all about it when you get here. Worry about *that* first!"

Makes sense to me!

Answer 9

1 out of 300 million.

(That one right there is me--I can't speak for anyone else.)