Only 3% of Evangelical Christians accept evolution

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Posted on: June 29, 2011 1:36 PM, by PZ Myers

he Pew Foundation has surveyed evangelical Christians on a variety of topics, and here's an interesting result: only 3% accept evolution. And it's worse than that, since that 3% seems to be just in the bounds of noise and the frequency of individuals who essentially reject the basics of Christianity.

To put the 3% figure in perspective, it is the same as the percentage of evangelicals who answered that it is not "essential to follow the teachings of Christ in one's personal and family life": pretty much the defining feature of evangelical Christianity. Furthermore, the 3% figure for support of evolution by evangelicals was consistent across all geographic regions.


http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/06/evangelical_christians_are_not.php

[RandySF]

1. Proof that part of the human race is not evolving.

[MNBrewer]

2. Proof that Evangelicals are either uneducated, or willfully ignorant.

[wizstars]

10. 97% of them ....

...evolved from the monkey that came down from the tree on its head.

[Iggo]

20. I never heard that one before.

But I like it. I like it a lot.

:rofl:

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Accepting that science can find answerw to lifes most intriguing questions...

is very different from accepting that those answere can only come from divine revelation.

So no one should be surprised at this.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. When I was growing up, this wasn't the case. Christians were more intelligent, more well read

Then the ignorant branch of Christianity took over all of Christianity, and the rest is history.

My sister is a non-denominational Christian, and she's had to go from church to church, trying to find a church where knowledge was important. In church after church she felt the ostracism of the loudmouths who, spurred by the trend of the Christian anti-science movement, made pro-science Christians feel like outcasts, and even accused them of not really being Christian.

[Botany]

5. Lord help the dumb asses

Charles Darwin .... deacon in the anglican church

Gregor Mendel ... the father of genetics who was a monk


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The fundies hate science

[ChrisBorg]

6. The question to ask them is....Could God use evolution in creating Man?

They have to answer yes.

[Hardrada]

7. Do the days of creation in Genesis mean actual 24 hour days?

Darrow got Bryan with that one in the Scopes Trial.

[ChrisBorg]

8. The Old Testament should not be used as a history book or a land deed.

It has shown itself to be useful as a geographical map. Many of the Biblical cities and locations have been discovered recently with satellite imaging.

[Hardrada]

9. Did they find the Garden of Eden yet?

[ChrisBorg]

12. Nope. I don't believe it ever existed. I am talking more along the lines

of the various non-major event cities mentioned in the Bible. Neta'im, Avaris, Dan, Jericho, Kedesh. The Bible mentions many cities, often in relationship to their location to other cities.

If you are waiting to find the Ark, Holy Grail or Ark of the Covenant I suggest renting Indiana Jones films.

[Hardrada]

13. Or Monty Python!

:P

[dmallind]

27. And Gone With The Wind quite accurately describes Atlanta.

Not sure what that tells us other than that Mitchell had to place the action somewhere.

[provis99]

15. god and evolution are competely incompatible.

Evolution explicitly rests on random mutation ie. completely free of conscious meddling. You can either believe in god, or accept the reality of evolution, but not both.

[ChrisBorg]

19. B.S. Gos can let evoltion do the heavy lifting. There is no conflict.

[provis99]

25. gos? evoltion? are you a teabagger?

[ChrisBorg]

26. I was rushed, I meant God. Sorry

I tea bag thee.

[struggle4progress]

23. 41% think God has used evolution for the purpose of creating humans and other life

3% think human life has evolved solely by natural processes

And 47% say "humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time"

[spin]

11. I wonder how many evangelical Christians have read the first book in the Old Testament ...

and noticed that there are two different creation stories in the first two chapters of Genesis. In the first chapter both man and woman are created on the sixth day.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:3%E2%80%932:4;&version=NIV;

In the second story, Adam was created first from dust then the garden was created followed by the animals and finally Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202:4%E2%80%932:25;&version=ESV;

[Hardrada]

14. I've actually brought that up to some of them but they change the subject

or answer a question with a question. (Which is often done on DU incidentally).

[spin]

16. There are also two different stories about Noah and his Ark...

one of the difference is how many animals he took aboard.


The Two Flood Stories

A Comparison of the J and P Accounts

http://www.energion.com/rpp/flood.shtml

[Hardrada]

17. One of my in-laws says that if one part of the Bible is wrong then all of

it is wrong. It would not then be divinely inspired which is why it has to be seen as literally true in all of its parts. It's a sort of circular argument you can't break into with facts. It is just the case that people want others to think for them since they can't be bothered to think for themselves.

[Cobalt-60]

18. This in law has the 1st edition

hand written in Aramaic on luxuriant Palestine vellum, of course.
The monstrosity your in law is quoting has been translated and revised for the convenience of despots for two thousand years.
It's become little more than instructions for being a perfect slave.

[Orsino]

21. Those are the ones who aren't afraid to evolve. n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. I often find the modifier "evangelical" to sometimes be confused with "fundamentalist" or...

"far right." I wonder how they are defining evangelical in this case. I'm afraid I'm unable to find the time to read the complete article at the moment. Off to the orthodontist. Please, oh, please tell me you'll be removing my kid's braces at the next appointment.

[GeorgeGist]

24. In related news ...

Evolution has nothing to do with religion.