A recent survey shows that over 40% of Americans think the Earth is less than 6000 years old?

Question

Well, how do they explain things like dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago, ancient fossils, rocks that are billions of years old and prehistoric human artifacts that date back 30,000 years?

Answer 1

Oh you poor sod, wait until the Creationists begin to answer.

I'm an American actively involved in the National Center for Science Education. Though I confine my activities to my state and local community, I'm proud it was members of the NCSE that were the big guns in the Dover Panda Trial, which got creationism tossed from public schools in Pennsylvania.

We let our guard down for 25 years and this is the result. Creeping Dominionism.

Answer 2

While I cannot answer for the other 40%, I am a well educated American that believes the Earth is no older than 6000 years. Enamel was on the right track in that when things were created they were created to look older. The trees when they were created were bearing fruit. A young sappling cannot do that. Likewise God would have created an Earth with age. As far as the dinosaurs go if you look at Job 40 you can see a discription of animals that are unlike what we have today. There are a couple of Psalms too that talk about large sea creatures that according to the writer, died out. Now as far as carbon dating goes, it has flaws. 10 years ago, scientists did an experement in Boston. They dated some leafs from that very fall and noticed that the carbon dating said they were over 100,000 years old. Another dating tool is to measure the date of the rock that the artifact or bones are in. Of course if you notice what is said above, an older looking rock would give an older date to the fossle than otherwise should be there. A large flood could easily have compressed fossles down and into rocks. I'm just hitting the tip of the iceburg of the evidence that supports a young Earth. It is not as crazy as it sounds.

Answer 3

I remember reading that a poll that asked where was London the capitol city of... most Americans thought Iceland.

Recently there was an American football game in London between Miami and some other team I can't remember, and it was reported some of the American players were surprised that English was spoken in England.

Unfortunately pollsters do seem to find the Americans with the reddest necks. I assume educated Americans avoid those people with clipboards asking questions.

Answer 4

the international's oldest recorded tree is a 9550 365 days previous spruce interior the Dalarna province of Sweden. way cool, i'm hoping they do all they might to maintain it alive. i might like to work out it. (love wood, uh oh, am I a Druid?) Creationists: properly some solutions have already coated what i replaced into going to declare "Heads exploding" "singing lalalalalala" and of direction their fall guy devil!! some, probably are thinking (gasp) and revamping their outlook. bear in mind purely 'God' could make a tree. ;-D I had a co worker who apart from transforming into completely speechless whilst a fellow co worker mentioned he replaced into an Atheist, later moaned that it wasn't honest that many wood had longer lives than human beings. I advised him wood make contributions way greater beneficial than human beings do to the wellbeing of the planet. flow wood!! Creationists have been 'positioned here' for the entertainment of something human beings. (exploding heads and all) over a million/2 million years in the past. (incredibly merely decrease them open and count sort their jewelry!)

Answer 5

That is all fine and dandy but next time the Earth has birthday , just count the number of candles. You can wrap the dinosaur fossils and other artifacts for birthday presents. There is metallic sphere in the Forbidden Archives of the British Museum that is over 3 Billion years old. Made of unknown metals.You can explain it all at the Birthday Party!

Answer 6

The modern human artifacts go back further than that, up to 200,000 years plus.

God put these things there to make the earth look old. Apparently he likes messing with peoples heads.

Answer 7

"Bizarre, Biblical Inaccurate, or Scientifically Unsound
The poll was conducted by Lake Research Associates on behalf of DEFCON. What is noteworthy is that nearly half (49%) of "white evangelicals or fundamentalists only" also placed the Creation "Museum" in one of those three disapproving categories."

According to this quote, over 49% say that the "Creation Museum" is Bizarre, Biblically Inaccurate, or Scientifically Unsound...that doesn't back up your statement at all...

http://www.allianceforscience.org/creatrion_museum_survey

Please add a link to your source, because I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Answer 8

Awww bless em,for they know not what they say,because they are mugs who believe everything the church tells them...no not all Americans can be called idiots but the problem is they are the ones in power and carry all the clout ie G.W.bushbaby that insepid born again moron....

Answer 9

Are you sure that was the exact wording? Maybe 40% just believes in creationism, not necessarily the 6,000 years bit. It always seems to come back to the meaning of the word faith. Apparently in faith you have to believe without question and without trying to discover any possible alternative truth. To try to discover another truth would be disregarding the word of God, and so it would mean you didn't truly believe.

I realize there's not enough evidence to prove that our ancestors were smaller apes, or that complex species evolved from amoebas, but the evidence that the world is more than a few thousand years old is irrefutable.

Answer 10

I don't know how they explain it but: as to their beliefs? Do they change the past? Or do they simply bother you?
It may interest you to know that a larger percentage of Americans believe in Santa Claus as well. Does that make Santa Clause real or does it just place a myth into our own personal "Sanity Clause"?
There are many who will not use their God given intelligence to see what God is saying to us. So I cannot speak for those of blind faith but God Himself gives them credit for their faith I'm sure.
Myself I know God to have created the whole of the universe and if it took fifteen billion years to do it then that is the time it took. If it took four and a half billion years to create this blue jewel of a planet then that is the time it took. I cannot disagree with the evolution of God's creation. So we've only been here for a few million years. So what? At some point God breathed a soul into you and I. And I don't care if it was six thousand years ago or six million years ago! The point is ...we are created, and our creator breathed a life into us that is eternal, so what's a few thousand or a few million years in all that time? Nothing! I'm not sweating the details on a matter of nothing.
God made me, God prepared a way for me, God gave me salvation in the Christ. What do I care if He did it six thousand years ago? What do I care if it was ten thousand years ago or even a hundred thousand years ago?
He inspired a book to reveal Himself to you and I and in that book He wrote out a code of ethics that go with the law. Then showed us how we are saved from ourselves.
Now we accept that or we reject that. Everything else is niether here nor there when we come to the bottom line.
We were created by a loving God to love and be loved. We can live with Him eternally or not. It is up to our own decisions.
I have decided to be with God and walk in His way. "The way".
The misinterpretation of the years means nothing to me in this context. It does to some of the faithful, but why should that bother anyone else?

Answer 11

Can you cite that? A link or anything? I don't think it's as high as 40%. We do have some wacky evangelicals, but I think the majority of people know better. Man, I hope so.

The evangelicals say that those things all existed in the garden of eden and were wiped out by the big flood. I guess carbon dating is another sham like gravity, aerodynamics, and the planet being round.