[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by photon

Well that link about the Science article there's nothing specific about 10,000 years so you can't really use that to support any position about the public's opinion of a 10,000 year old either, for or against.

Yet even in that poll the question "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals." is a dead heat and "Human beings were created by God as whole persons and did not evolve from earlier forms of life." leads almost 2 to 1, which is still a very anti-scientific stance. I don't see much difference between 60% of people denying common ancestry and 44% of people believing in a 6000 year old earth.

I don't see how a poll can be fallible or infallible, it's simply answers to a question. You can't deny how people answered the question.

I would say thought that how meaningful the results of a poll are is questionable.. even with the few polls that have been shown it's easy to see how easily the poll results are swayed. You can ask the exact same question regarding evolution and once you throw "God" into the question the results change significantly.. which tells me that people simply don't really know what they believe, they just parrot back what the media tells them to think

Most people haven't seen or can't understand the scientific data supporting common ancestry. Almost everyone has seen and can understand the far more overwhelming evidence suggesting that earth is much, much older than 6000 years. That's the difference.

If I said I don't think humans evolved from ###### would you automatically assume I was a bible thumper? You shouldn't. (that's not my belief btw) I think you're making a giant leap.

Polling can be designed to obtain certain answers. Easily. That's why I don't trust it.