Americans are Creationists; Britons and Canadians Side with Evolution

[marmar]

Americans are Creationists; Britons and Canadians Side with Evolution
by Ariel Goldring


47% of Americans believe God created human beings in their present form within the past 10,000 years while 68% of Britons and 61% of Canadians believe humans evolved over a process spanning millions of years, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.

In other words, two-thirds of Britons and three-fifths of Canadians side with evolution whereas only one-third of Americans believe that human beings evolved from less advanced life forms.

To compare this to the scientific community, a 2009 poll by the Pew Research Center found that “87% of scientists say that humans and other living things have evolved over time and that evolution is the result of natural processes such as natural selection.”



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[depakid]

1. So 13% of American scientists are creationists?

:rofl:

America- a nation where even significant percentage of scientists are scientifically illiterate.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. That just makes me want to cry.

[Enthusiast]

19. Me too

:cry:

[BlueJazz]

3. More Americans....percentage wise...think the Sun goes around the Earth than any other...

...industrialized nation.

In Short, we are (partially) a nation of dumb-asses.

[laconicsax]

4. When you consider that about 75% of the population is Christian, one could easily see this as...

...evidence that a majority of Christians are creationists. Even if 100% of Jews and Muslims were creationists (which they're not), you'd still have 45% of a population that's roughly 75% Christian.

In fact the only way you can not have a majority of Christians as young-earth creationists is if Christians were somehow over 90% of the population.

I do take issue with the use of "believe" with regards to accepting evolution. Saying you "believe" in evolution is about the same as saying you "believe" in a heliocentric model of the solar system. It's quite different than saying that you believe that the Earth and everything on it was magicked into existence less than 10,000 years ago.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. who are these scientists?

I realize that americans in general have a hard time with elementary school concepts, but what scientist believes in creationism?

[depakid]

8. You'll find some of them here:

http://www.discovery.org/

(13% really is an astonishing number).

[Warren Stupidity]

10. oh them, but those fruitcakes are just posing as scientists

I want to know where the other 12.99999% are.

[depakid]

15. My guess is that answer lies in the criteria for "who a scientist is."

Engineers for example sometimes entertain beliefs that will make your jaw drop to the floor, and disciplines like psychology and sociology often attract people with high levels of religiosity.

[AspenRose]

13. The New Republic. Fox News. The American Spectator.

Just looking at where they get their "news" from tells me all I want to know.

[Suich]

6. I'm about 120 miles from the Canadian border,

so count me in with them!

:hi:

[marmar]

7. I live across the river from Canada.....

So I've long counted myself in, eh?

[RagAss]

9. The IQ Bell Curve stikes again.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Only 61% of Canadians?

Yech, that's disappointing. I thought we were much more educated than that.

[marmar]

12. Alberta.

nt

[AspenRose]

14. ROFL!

:rofl: Well, they DO call Calgary "Houston North."

[Canuckistanian]

25. 'nuff said

[Spazito]

28. Bingo!

I have met some of the 39% creationist nuts here. I have NO doubt Alberta accounts for most of them.

[mmonk]

16. Our belief system is probably closer to countries in the Middle East.

[felinetta]

17. No big surprise. Look at the Teabaggers, Angle, Bachman, Palin, DeMint etc etc.

[slay]

18. Land of the fanatical, home of the stupid

we're gonna have to change our motto. i was just watching Galapagos documentary where Charles Darwin refined many of his theories. To deny evolution is to deny science. I'm not saying someone can't believe whatever god he or she wants to but creationism is just silly. We have vastly undereducated people here - who seem quite proud to be so! You can usually find one at your local "tea party".

[Enthusiast]

21. +1

The Tea Party is likely comprised of those that believe in creationism to the tune of 99%.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

20. I have a hard time believing there are so many idiiots here

who- or where - did they poll?

[Fumesucker]

23. You obviously don't live in the Bible Belt..

If you did you'd know where a great many of the idiots are, they are right here.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

26. Have lived most of my life in Madison WI - 100 sq. miles surrounded by reality

but I do travel the USA a lot... and have seen and heard a lot of stupid RW crap elsewhere - eg, Bible belt states, OK, KS, WY, SD, even other parts of Wisconsin... still can't BEAR to believe it.

[Ross K]

22. Ptuh! Both of those countries have a Queen!

Not a man! Not a woman! A "QUEEN!"

In the Sweet Blessed Name of The Lord Jesus Christ, could I be any clearer???

[malaise]

24. Ignorance is bliss

but I'm betting that if Jamaica were included it would be 70% believing in creationism.

[david13]

27. No surprise. I think the thing that USA is #1 at is ... stupidity. dc