Scary Poll: 51% of Americans Reject Evolution
While the debate on my previous entry continues, I’m gonna go ahead and poke the hornet’s nest a little more by pointing out this particularly scary poll I ran into:
51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.
CBS News | Poll: Majority Reject Evolution | October 24, 2005 11:30:08
So, while there’s a 4% margin of error each way in the poll, it’s still downright scary. 51% of the population of the country completely rejects evolution, despite the mountains of evidence, despite its explanatory power as a scientific theory, despite the fact that the alternative they offer is that some invisible being in the sky waved his hands and created us. Hooray.
Americans most likely to believe in only evolution are liberals (36 percent), those who rarely or never attend religious services (25 percent), and those with a college degree or higher (24 percent).
White evangelicals (77 percent), weekly churchgoers (74 percent) and conservatives (64 percent), are mostly likely to say God created humans in their present form.
CBS News | Poll: Majority Reject Evolution | October 24, 2005 11:30:08
Just stuff to think about while tossing back and forth in bed, trying not to quake with fear. 
October 26th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
While the results of this study are scary, they do support what i have been stating all along: Democracy is bad. This study shows that 51%, a clear majority of the people, are stupid. In a democracy the majority rules, therefore in a democracy stupidity rules.
Now don’t get me wrong, there are some pretty miracolus circumstances that lead to the development of life, and even more leading to intelligent life, in the Universe, so thinking that a celestial superpower was involved in it even has logic behind it. So believing that God guided evolution even makes sense, but discarding evolution and saying mankind was made out of clay? Kookoo.