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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus6/01/2012 10:10:19 pm PDT

This was the most reported creationism story today, in Our Amercia America:

More Americans Continue to Accept Creationism Than Evolution

The percentage of Americans who believe God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years is about the same as it was 30 years ago, a new survey indicates.

Today, 46 percent of Americans accept this creationist explanation for human existence, a negligible change from the 44 percent who said they agreed with it in 1982, according to Gallup polls.

In the most recent poll, conducted by phone in May, 15 percent of Americans fell on the other end of the spectrum, saying they believed God played no part in human evolution, a process that had taken millions of years. Nearly all of the rest of the respondents, 32 percent, choose the third option, saying they believed humans had evolved, but that God had guided the process, a belief called “theistic evolution.” [eds. - wrongly reported by LiveScience, btw.]

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