Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings -- [ROTATE 1-3/3-1: 1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, 2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process, 3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so]?
Consistently, Americans over 30% are saying "Man developed, with God guiding. Over 40% are saying "God created man in present form. And only 10-15% of Americans are saying "Man developed, but God had no part in the process. [Link]
This stark reality has everything to do with education. Those who progress through high school to postgraduate education become increasingly skeptical of creationist ideals.
Also, it has much to do with how regularly one attends church. The more frequently one goes to church, the more one is likely to totally reject the theory of evolution as put forth by Charles Darwin.
Darwin's theory now has mountains and mountains of evidence. It has scientific support that creationism will never match. But, the problem isn't whether it's provable or not. The problem is whether it is believable or not.
Science is battling religion in the realm of fantasy, mythology, or unreality.
Scientists all too often seek to coexist with Biblical stories, stories believed by people who will never accept certain provable theories of science as truth.
If Creation does actually fail to gain wide distribution, it will not be because people in America do not believe evolution but because scientists have not yet figured out how to stand up to religious leaders and organizations that oppose reason.
Sadly, one hundred and fifty years after Darwin's Origins and over eighty years after the Scopes trial, American scientists still do not know how to drown out the noise machine of religious America. And, that's what distributors appropriately or inappropriately fear.
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