46% Americans Believe In Creationism: Do You Believe In Creationism?
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There is no rationality in the idea that one day everything just exploded into existence from nothing, with laws, mathematical order and life evolving on this planet. Atheism in this sense is a fraud. It attacks one set of so called "irrational" beliefs and replaces it with an even more irrational one.
Nothing cannot put something in itself. SOMEONE has to put SOMETHING in NOTHING. That is the most rational way of seeing it. Laws in the universe keep order, but laws need a lawgiver.
The following question was asked to determine Americans' views on origin of human beings:
Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings?
1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process,
2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process,
3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.
Respondents were categorized as believing in theistic evolution (option 1), evolution (option 2) and creationism (option 3) depending on their answer choice.
Forty six percent Americans believed in creationism, 32 percent believed in theistic evolution and 15 percent believed in evolution without any divine intervention. As the graph below shows, the percent of Americans who believe in creationism ha...
The following question was asked to determine Americans' views on origin of human beings:
Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings?
1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process,
2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process,
3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.
Respondents were categorized as believing in theistic evolution (option 1), evolution (option 2) and creationism (option 3) depending on their answer choice.
Forty six percent Americans believed in creationism, 32 percent believed in theistic evolution and 15 percent believed in evolution without any divine intervention. As the graph below shows, the percent of Americans who believe in creationism has increased slightly by 2 percent over the last 30 years. The percent of Americans who believe in evolution has also increased by 6 percent over the last 30 years while the percent of Americans who believe in theistic evolution has decreased by 6 percent over the same time period.
Everyone talks about the theory of evolution, for two reasons; first, it is the part being worked on, and second, most people don't understand the difference between the common usage of the the word theory and the scientific usage, thus they say "JUST a theory", and "why isn't it a LAW".
'likely','probable','speculat...
"Science" means knowledge.
Strata fossil findings have no proof of any creature changing from one thing into something else. Every creature be it animal,bird,fish,or insect has always been THAT creature,-varities within species is not proof of evolution; a canine is still a canine is still a dog though different type breeds exist.
Evolution is man's newest RELIGION excepting that the god of that religion is his own mind and hence no rules
It is a fact that evolution happens. The theory is why it happens, which can and should never be proven. it can only be demonstrated to be true beyond a reasonable doubt, which it has been.
I've always had trouble accepting this 'evolution is a fact and a theory' argument you make, too – it just seems so 'cart-before-the-horseish'. We could declare the same, I think, about *anything* we might believe: One could as readily claim that, “Cats stealing children's breath as they sleep is a *fact* – how they *do* it, however, is a theory.”
There are facts about evolution, observations we have made and proven to be true. These facts are things like, mutations occur, they can be good or bad, mutations are passed on.
There are laws of evolution, things we know to occur. These laws are things like: mutations cause one species to perform better than another one, when a species mutates enough apart from another group they might no longer be able to breed and thus form a new species.
And then there is the theory of evolution. The theory is that Natural Selection allows only the best traits to continue on. Natural Selection is the part Darwin came up with and we have since improved upon as we have discovered more facts and laws. Essentially, the animal that survives longer breeds more. When they breed more, more of the beneficial trait is passed on. This is Natural Selection.
It's the exact same thing with Gravity. There is the fact that things fall. There is the law that things with more mass pull things with less mass toward them. There is the theory, which I don't understand at all, that was first made by Newton then perfected by Einstein.
A fact is an observable truth about known reality. A law is a statement based on repeated experiments and observat...
There are facts about evolution, observations we have made and proven to be true. These facts are things like, mutations occur, they can be good or bad, mutations are passed on.
There are laws of evolution, things we know to occur. These laws are things like: mutations cause one species to perform better than another one, when a species mutates enough apart from another group they might no longer be able to breed and thus form a new species.
And then there is the theory of evolution. The theory is that Natural Selection allows only the best traits to continue on. Natural Selection is the part Darwin came up with and we have since improved upon as we have discovered more facts and laws. Essentially, the animal that survives longer breeds more. When they breed more, more of the beneficial trait is passed on. This is Natural Selection.
It's the exact same thing with Gravity. There is the fact that things fall. There is the law that things with more mass pull things with less mass toward them. There is the theory, which I don't understand at all, that was first made by Newton then perfected by Einstein.
A fact is an observable truth about known reality. A law is a statement based on repeated experiments and observations. A theory is the best explanation available for why these things are what they are. As such, things like evolution and gravity can be all three, as they are referring to different parts of the same thing.