40% of U.S. adults believe that God created humans in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      0%.

      Belief in creationism has always been sky-high, the legacy of a society where damn near everyone used to be religious in some form or another. 40% is probably a little low compared to prior years.

      That 40% also includes folks who are "smart" but raised religious and still are, but who have simply never bothered to examine their beliefs about the origins of the universe. I mean, whether the Earth is 10,000 years old or 4 billion, it doesn't impact their lives materially one bit. In fact, a lot of them probably know deep down that actually examining this question could lead to questioning other things they don't want to question. I know quite a few people like this...

    • Enver_Hoxha [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Nah this is purely yankee shit even this site has a huge active portion of religious nutjobs

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        Unfortunately not pure Yankee shit, due to colonialism lots of people in South Saharan Africa are religious fundamentalists, I think the latest stats is 75-80% of South Africans view themselves as Christian and 56% believe in some form of creationism and deny the fact of evolution. It also leads to really contradictory views such as 80% of people believing homosexually is morally wrong but 70% of people willing to accept and protect the rights of gay people. Just really confusing as someone that's lived there all my life