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Related: About this forumReligious Constriction
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/opinion/blow-religious-constriction.html?_r=0JUNE 8, 2014
Charles M. Blow
I am both shocked and fascinated by Americans religious literalism.
One Gallup report issued last week found that 42 percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago.
Even among people who said that they were very familiar with the theory of evolution, a third still believed that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago.
Its not clear what the respondents meant by being very familiar did they fully understand the science upon which evolutions based, or was their understanding something short of that, as in, very familiar with it as being antithetical to creationist concepts?
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Religious Constriction (Original Post)
cbayer
Jun 2014
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Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)1. Surprisingly, the Catholic church at least, does not oppose evolution.
Do Catholics know this?
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Yes. In polls, the majority of Catholics indicate a belief in evolution.
Nitram
(22,945 posts)3. Maybe "familiar with evolution" means...
...they've heard that it contradicts the bible and is therefore wrong.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)4. That might in fact be exactly the extent of their familiarity.