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January 10th, 2012
04:18 PM ET
Survey: U.S. Protestant pastors reject evolution, split on Earth's ageBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor America’s Protestant pastors overwhelmingly reject the theory of evolution and are evenly split on whether the earth is 6,000 years old, according to a survey released Monday by the Southern Baptist Convention. When asked if “God used evolution to create people," 73% of pastors disagreed - 64% said they strongly disagreed - compared to 12% who said they agree. Asked whether the earth is approximately 6,000 years old, 46% agreed, compared to 43% who disagreed. A movement called Young Earth creationism promotes the 6,000-year-old figure, arguing that it is rooted in the Bible. Scientists say the earth is about 4.5 billion years old. The Southern Baptist Convention survey, which queried 1,000 American Protestant pastors, also found that 74% believe the biblical Adam and Eve were literal people. “Recently discussions have pointed to doubts about a literal Adam and Eve, the age of the earth and other origin issues," said Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research, a division of the Southern Baptist Convention, in a report on LifeWay’s site. “But Protestant pastors are overwhelmingly Creationists and believe in a literal Adam and Eve.” The phone survey was conducted in May 2011, sampling ministers from randomly selected Protestant churches. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percent, LifeWay said. A 2010 Gallup poll found that 40% of Americans believe God created humans in their present form, versus 54% who said humans developed over millions of years. soundoff (6,504 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Next »
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Gees and these are relatively educated people with very closed minds. Too bad.
"46% agreed that the earth is 6000 years old". Thinking that the earth is 6000 years old is like thinking that the United States measures 10 feet from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People seriously need to start thinking with their brains instead of thinking with their bibles
Exactly. With tens of thousands of children dying of disease and starvation in Sudan and South Africa, the killings in Syria and the Middle East, all the christians think that god is much to involved with tim tebow to worry about all of the pain and misery in the world.
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Not surprising. These hucksters are out there selling a product; religion. Do you really think that a used car salesman is going to tell you that the car he is trying to get you to buy might be a "lemon"? If preachers let their flock believe in evolution, they are out of a job.
I find it interesting that the Bible, a book compiled by a group of men about 400 years after the death of Christ, that is believed to be historically accurate (from a religious perspective) of events covering the previous 4400 years. Yet 1600 years later, people can't get their facts straight about who did what within the government 4 years, let alone 1100x that long.
The argument is generally it was passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation. Ever play that game where a small group of people sit in a circle and one person whispers something in one person's ear, and tell them to pass it on? What comes out the mouth of the person at the other end is very different. Now imagine the story after 4400 years and, what, 70-80 generations?
Who cares what they think, really. The bible was written by men that didn't understand a word of what Jesus taught. They relied on Mary Magdalin to decipher. They got rid of her and didn't start to write their bulls–t until 32 years AFTER Jesus was dead. The ignorant writting what they didn't understand and got rid of the ONLY person that DID understand. How many people have died and are still being massacred over religion?
Religion is the opium of the people, truly!
Actually, the 6,000 year age of earth is not necessarily implied by the Bible. The Bible never says that Adam was the first man that God created. The only reference to Adam as the first man is in 1Cor 15:45 where it refers to Adam as the first man and Christ as the second man. Clearly, this does not mean that Adam was the first man created.
Reag Gen 1,2 carefully. It is easy to infer that Adam was the first man created, but that is not stated nor is it strictly implied.
You are trying to use myths and fabrications to prove myths and fabrications. None of it is true.
Meet the new century... same as the last century.
nice
And unfortunatley going back several more centuries!
Evolution is BS, and anyone who believe on it is a complete idiot.
Why is it BS? Give us some facts.
Hahaha. Are you the first liberal christian? You don't believe in fact?
It's not like he has any facts to back up his wishful thinking.
@AB
Speaking of idiots, "and anyone who believe on it is a complete idiot"?
Perhaps you should learn the language before you call others idiots.
What do you expect from those that preach a blind Faith. Without faith the churches would go bankrupt....it is all about money and not about Christ. And I am very sorry to say this.
When theories or scientific discoveries appear to contradict scripture, the science isn't wrong, it's man's understanding of scripture that is almost always flawed.
If it's OK to continuously re-interpret the scripture every time a scientific discovery contradicts the old interpretation, what good is the canon?
So from one century to the next, the same words can have a totally different meaning? What's the point? And why would anyone call that kind of scripture "The Truth" if the meaning can be changed over and over? It's like reading a line from a Nostradumus refrain. Oh it means this, no it means that. I'd rather just stick with facts thank you.
10 out of 10 religious people are being brainwashed.
And you wonder why this country is only half the success it should be. You have the Pope telling the wacko Catholics that gay marriage is a serious threat to the human race and then you have this southern clowns brainwashing their children to reject science and to ultimately become untrainable morons. It sickens me.
They're all a bunch of wackos taking advantage of people's minds who they prefer stay ignorant.
The future belongs to the scientifically trained. The innumerate, untrained masses will become the new underclass now that blue collar jobs have disappeared.
That is OK. 7 out of 10 people who are not morons accept the Theory Of Evolution and reject the theory that the Earth was blinked into exsistence by a magic fairy in space.
Evolution is real, god is not.
If god is for real he has really screwed up his project hasn't he? Maybe he can do better in that fat galaxy that was just discovered.
People in this country are so freaking stupid. The end of the world will become a reality because of these numbnuts.
How many people actually buy this survey? How do we know this isn't some kind of made up propaganda cooked up by the Southern Baptist Convention to make it seem like they have more on their side than they do?
This poll is "Exhibit A" as to why I am not a religious person. Anyone who, after being presented with the MOUNTAINS of evidence supporting not only evolution but also the Earth's estimated age of 4.7 billion years, can still deny it all simply because they don't want it to be true is truly a delusional fool. I don't want to give either my time, my support, or my money to fools.
The evidence can really support both creationism and evolution. You can take a look at fossils, carbon dating and even DNA, to mention a few, and the same evidence can make strong points to support either one. At the end of the day, all we have is the evidence, so as we dig deeper it becomes evident that they both are religions, both beliefs. Because the evidence can support both and we dont have any video of anyone there at that time, they both can become beliefs equally. So, the difference, I think is the world view. The worldview of someone who tends toward evolution vs the worldview of someone who tends to creationism. However, relative truth cannot be an answer, it's impossible. There's only one truth, so we MUST consider the historic evidence we have and this must include the Bible as it is considered historically accurate and we must consider our lives now, which includes logic and logic cannot come out of an accident, that's illogical. Some recommended literature that has helped my understanding is by Ken Ham and Jason LIsle
Ken "Jesus on a Dinosaur" Ham? Bwah hahahahahahaha! Thanks for the laugh! Now I can go to bed.
they shouldn't say 7 out of 10 pastors, they should say 7 out of 10 SOUTHERN BAPTIST pastors. THat is a very specific denomination and it does not accurately reflect all Christian Pastors.
If we're talking about Southern pastors we'd have to change the ratio to 9/10.