"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>We already know how intellectually impaired you "liberals" are, so why do
>you keep on trying to prove the same thing over and over--we already know.
Because you are wrong over and over. And I will keep telling you that
you are wrong until you stop saying it, and change the subject like
you do every other time I tell you that you are wrong. You cannot win
and you will not win. You are a loser.
>The majority of the 264 million Christians in this country really can't
>answer this poll correctly if they really support the Holy Bible.
The majority of Christians in this country don't give a hoot. In
Europe which is even more heavily Christian, fewer than 20% take the
Biblical creation story literally. The creation story is a myth,
nincompoop, and most Christians in the WORLD know that. Only in this
country do a significant number thing otherwise.
>Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
>of life, but God guided this process. 40%
>Human beings have developed over millions of years from lessadvanced forms
>of life. God had no part in this process. 9
>God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time
>within the last 10,000 years or so. 47
>No opinion 4
>>There's nothing in the Holy Bible that restricts the timeframe in which God
>created life to 10,000 years.
Actually, some medieval clergyman calculated from the Biblical numbers
that creation took place in 4004 BC, so most people taking the Bible
literally (called "young-earth creationists" or YEC) think that it was
around 6000 years ago. 10,000 is leaving a considerable padding.
>This poll suggests ONLY that 47% of
>Christians believe this timeframe to have been less than 10,000 years. But
>there's no question to which Christians who believe that God created human
>beings more than 10,000 years ago can respond correctly.
If someone had expressed that opinion, they would have been recorded
as "no opinion". But I doubt that any significant number would have
chosen that option.
>Their objective is clear: they wanted to get people to respond to "Human
>beings have developed over millions of years from lessadvanced forms of
>life. God had no part in this process".
Clear only to nincompoops like you.
>BUT Gallup didn't ask them what they believed.
How do you know? If you knew the Gallup polling methodology, you
would not say this.
>You DO NOT know how many Christians responded with "Human beings have
>developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God
>guided this process" ONLY because it "comes closest to [their] views".
Since that is what was asked, then that is what the number means -
that it comes closest to their views.
>You CANNOT presume that 100% of those who selected that answer did so
>because they "believe in evolution".
Actually they broke the numbers out in the last poll as per that
citation I gave you, as to what those who believed in creationism
picked and those that favored evolution picked among those choices.
And you are as usual wrong.
>All you can do is claim that SOME of
>them MUST have believed in "evolution",
Since they asked that question separately, we know what percentage did
so.
Meanwhile it remains true that it doesn't matter what the polls say,
evolutionary theory is the scientific theory that best explains what
we observe and which predicts what we will observe in the future.
Creationism is not even a scientific theory.
lojbab
