45% of Americans believe God created man recently

45% of American adults believe God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so

http://www.cpod.ubc.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5108

I'd use the term "adults" pretty loosely in this case.

i wonder how it feels to wear blinders your whole life?

. . .then how do you explain Captain Caveman?

[Edited on Nov 22, 2004 by DiamondGeezer]

It's not their belief that I have a problem with [their life, their right]. It's their desire to legislate their belief as the only one acceptable to teach in the schools.

3 of the scientists that I work with believe this too. Apparently cavemen were just men who lived in caves (I didn't really know how to respond to that one) and carbon dating is all wrong.

I still believe in Santa Claus

Okay, for any Americans reading this: Now you understand what 'we' mean when 'we' say "Fucking dumb Yanks". It's nothing personal, it's just there appear to be quite a few.#1






#1 and yes, I realise that there are plenty of stupid English too.

a plot by the commie satanists over at hanna-baal bera to brainwash little kids into smoking crack and being gay.

[Edited on Nov 22, 2004 by Turin]

Please tell me they don't have wacky theories for blood testing pathology (or what ever the hell it is that you do)

ok wait, wait, wait. I want everyone to take a wild guess who most of these people voted for in the last election. just for giggles.

Carbon dating is such total bullshit. I asked god, and he said, "No... fuck that. Carbon dating is a lie". He went on about how "dinosaurs bones" were really just heavenly toothpicks, discarded by him back in the day. Finally he said that I wasn't allowed to talk to him any more, and that he would only communicate to us through the pope, and George W.

Then he kicked me in the shin, and ran away giggling. That wacky god.

51% of voting americans are idiots, what else is new

Speaking about scientists trying to rationalize their religious beliefs with their scientific findings, I read a book once that tried to explain the book of Genesis in relation to the evolution of man. I forget the name of it now but basically it said that the book of Genesis, the original Hebrew text, never referred to there being one man named Adam. But rather that adamis was the Hebrew word for man, and it stated that's when God breathed life into him making him a man.

It went on to state that if you use Eintein's theorem of time dilation, and used the six days in a geometric scale, the events that supposedly occured in those days match perfectly when accounting in relativistic time. For example, the first day would actually have taken several million years, the next day a fraction of that and so on. And that the first verses of the Bible correctly state the order in which the animals evolved (reptiles, amphibians, birds, etc).

Now obviously this sounds as bullshitty as the people that think the Bible can predict the future through numerology, but it's interesting to see how even well educated men of science try to rationalize their faith in odd ways.

i really think we should rename ourselves the United States of Puddingheads.

This just in...45% of American adults have their heads trapped in their asses.

I'm hoping that they don't. But then again, dinosaurs are mentioned in The Bible and they were around at the same time that man was. Apparently.

I still haven't had an explanation from the creationists for the presence of mitochondria in eukaryotic cells.

So Captain Caveman no.
Flintstones yes.
Does it explain the crossover episodes?

who the fuck gives a shit.

God put those there to test our faith.

By those I mean creationists.

So what? People are entitled to their own beliefs. That is what America was founded on. If these idiots want to blieve that some god created them, more power to them. I for one believe that we came about as a result of the Great Green Arkelseizure.

And four million Americans believe that they have been abducted by aliens.

Dumb Yanks don't use that crappy method of footnote citation anymore.

I think carbon dating is pretty unreliable...but it's alot more accurate then the bible..lol

Fourty million americans probably are aliens.

[Edited on Nov 22, 2004 by Renton]