(February 17, 2024 at 8:29 am)Belacqua Wrote:(February 17, 2024 at 7:36 am)neil Wrote: I've come across many individuals out there who reject evolution, and I'm referring to friends & co-workers, not random people off the street. In contrast, I've never come across anyone in person (friend, co-worker, acquaintance) who's a flat-earther.
Almost 1 out of every 5 (18%) of Americans reject evolution & think humans have always existed in our current form:
For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate | Pew Research Center
For the US adult population, that's close to 50 million people!
I'm sure there are plenty of people like that in the world. People get in their insulated zones and believe all kinds of crazy things.
I just meant to say that on this forum, I don't think we've had any creationists for a while now.
Years ago Amazon had discussion forums, and the religion section was particularly active. There was a wide variety of people who posted there, including creationists. The evolution/creation thread was always active.
The most articulate and well-informed guy who argued consistently against the creationists was a Presbyterian nuclear scientist. He really knew his stuff.
I understood that you meant on this forum & I agree that there are plenty more people outside the US who reject evolution.
I mainly focus on what's happening here in the US since this is where I live; perhaps there's also some bias on my part in the form of affinity for the US, since it's the only nation with a Bill of Rights (as well as amendments for abolishing slavery and race/color/women's suffrage), particularly the first clause of the 1st Amendment - which is specifically freedom from religion & separation of church and state, as well as freedom of speech and of the press in the other 1st A. clauses. Supposedly some other countries have the same (I personally have my doubts about that), but there are definitely many countries that do not. I wouldn't trust political & religious data from foreign sources (not that I do trust domestic sources LOL), whether it's Russia, Red China, the British Empire, any theocratic nations, etc.
