Americans are Creationists; Britons and Canadians Side with Evolution
47% of Americans believe God created human beings in their present form within the past 10,000 years while 68% of Britons and 61% of Canadians believe humans evolved over a process spanning millions of years, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.
In other words, two-thirds of Britons and three-fifths of Canadians side with evolution whereas only one-third of Americans believe that human beings evolved from less advanced life forms.
To compare this to the scientific community, a 2009 poll by the Pew Research Center found that “87% of scientists say that humans and other living things have evolved over time and that evolution is the result of natural processes such as natural selection.”
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Why do you think this is? Why are Americans creationists and the British are not?
Many Americans still believe that the Bible is to be interpreted literally.
Problem is the Bible was never meant to be a scientific document. Back in those days they believed that the sun and stars moved around the earth and that the earth was flat and that the stars were hung in the sky in a huge bubble above the earth.
Later we discovered that the world was a globe floating in a sea of stars so Biblical scholars changed their views to say that the Bible only figuratively talked about the “4 corners of the earth” or the “sun rising and setting” around the earth.
So creationist say “some parts of the Bible are not to be taken literally” But “other parts are”.
It’s a good example of having your cake and eating it too,
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