so. how many people here believe in evolution?

Question

And then consider this, christians say only 12% of the USA is atheist.

I've never been asked. So how can they say that?

If it is only 12% then why is it taught in school? if 12% is the majority, then is backwards, forwards? is up, down? is falling, flying?

I would like to be surveyed before I see things like this. How old is this survey?

Answer 1

90% of the public believes that humans only use 10% of their brain's potential, that doesn't mean it's true (and it isn't, you use 100% of your brain).

90% of the public believes that humans are 80-90% water, that doesn't mean it's true (it's actually around 60%).

From what I've seen a lot of people can't even point out North Korea on a world map, does that mean that geography isn't true?

What I'm getting at is that just because the majority of the public aren't adequately educated to understand some things it doesn't mean that they aren't true or valid.

Look at Global Warming for example - a large percentage of the Western world have been convinced that it's a political farce and doesn't exist despite the evidence. Does that mean they're right or that they just don't accept/know the reality behind it?

Again, public consensus doesn't determine what is true.

Answer 2

regrettably, sure. i don't be conscious of how they might cope with the cognitive dissonance. you're no longer nicely-knowledgeable considering the fact which you do no longer understand that concept is the utmost point in technology. it is not a wager. it is ignorant to declare "purely a concept". the person-friendly ancestor of all apes (alongside with people and chimps) is a monkey and which may be shown on your satisfaction. It would not matter on the belief of evolution. that could be a actuality. Theories have not got information which purely applies in arithmetic. Theories have information. there is not any information of a god of any form. Theories are falsifiable. that could be a characteristic, no longer a computer virus. If information is produced that shows yet another concept or this one desires modification, then we found out some thing and are grateful for it. faith would not have that characteristic. And it is requred. So introduction via a god isn't able to being a concept. because of the fact the invention of mitochodrial DNA ancestry would be desperate via genetic mapping and we don't choose bones to verify the belief. Theories make predictions and can be used to strengthen different theories and open up completely new lines of inquiry. the belief of evolution is wise because of the fact is works, no longer unavoidably considering is actuality. Evolution is actuality yet organic determination is a concept. base line is that it somewhat works. God as a proof would not paintings for us and is not any longer in all likelihood an answer in that regard. Its an excuse to no longer think of approximately it.

Answer 3

i'm an atheist. i believe religion is for those with malleable minds. i on the other hand advocate free thinking. the whole adam and eve story is almost an insult to my intelligence. how can any religion expect people to have faith in something so idiotic...and without explicit proof? it sounds like these surveys you speak of are propagated for a dubious cause, and it just goes to show how deceitful some of the god heads really are. and they want control over what's taught in public schools?! wouldn't it be great if they had free reign over everything? that would be the epitome of a dystopia.

Answer 4

Two things:

1) Survey sample sizes, when an accurate representation of the whole group can be very small relatively, and yet very accurate.

Translation: No one's askin' yo a**

2) Most people say they're "Christian" because their parents were, it's basically the default answer in America.

Answer 5

WHAT????? What are you saying? WHAT SURVEY?
Where are your references? Newsflash: not everyone is Christian either, so don't shove your belief system down my throat in public school. You want creation theory? Go to private school!!! Science isn't religion. Science is empirical knowledge, tested and retested.

You know, you don't have to be a complete atheist to believe in evolution. I can't say I am an atheist....but I can't even understand why evolution is something you can believe in or not. It just...is.

Answer 6

Here are the real numbers. There are 1.1 billion atheists in the world. Additionally there are 900 million Buddhists who also do not recognize a deity or god. That's 2 billion total who do not believe in god. There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world. In the US, including Christians and all other religions, approximately 83% believe in some god or another.

Answer 7

Actually, the figure I last saw was 7%. In the U.S. over 90% consistently say they believe in God, or a supreme being. That doesn't mean they are "Christian." Anyway, I'm a Christian, and I give evolution "two opposable thumbs up!" :p

Answer 8

I believe in evolution but I just can't buy the idea that the Earth is billions of years old. I mean, it's still red hot and bubbling inside!
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Answer 9

I do. If evolution isn't how things happened, God clearly meant for us to believe in it anyway, or he wouldn't have gone to all the trouble of creating all that evidence.

I do wish Christians would stop trying to make governments and schools do their preaching for them.

Answer 10

Sam Harris says that around 80% of Swedes are atheists.
Unfortunately we have a situation developing in the U.S.A. where educated sensible people are the minority and the majority are religious nuts who base their entire lives on delusion. Scary.

me, atheist

kaye f: maybe if you CAPITALIZE it, it will come true ;)