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dmallind

(10,437 posts)

6. piss easy Google.

Reply to cbayer (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:34 PM

Jan 2012

http://www.lifeway.com/Article/Research-Poll-Pastors-oppose-evolution-split-on-earths-age

They say random wrighted for geographical distribution. How much more detail does any survey group offer?

So now you don't believe protestant church groups on what protestant preachers believe? Would you believe them were the results less in line with what atheists have been saying all along - that sophisticated theology is a minority viewpoint among US believers and even clergy?

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73% of Protestant Pastors Reject the Theory of Evolution [View all] LAGC Jan 2012 OP

Yeah, but that 73% is just a fringe minority skepticscott Jan 2012 #1

More like a persecuted minority. rexcat Jan 2012 #2

They are the loudest voice and ugliest face Starboard Tack Jan 2012 #7

Random protestant pastors are the Taliban of America? Even I would not go so far. dmallind Jan 2012 #14

They just have edhopper Jan 2012 #3

Is that higher than before? Ron Obvious Jan 2012 #4

I am having trouble finding a link to the actual survey. cbayer Jan 2012 #5

piss easy Google. dmallind Jan 2012 #6

Actually, that's just another analysis, though it does give more information than the other. cbayer Jan 2012 #9

Did you look at the .pdf linked to from that site? Jim__ Jan 2012 #11

Fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much. cbayer Jan 2012 #16

It would be interesting to see the unweighted results and how they applied the weights - n/t Jim__ Jan 2012 #19

No it's the website of the survey group - the source. This survey is not an outlier at all either. dmallind Jan 2012 #15

I maintain that the surveying organization had a vested interest in getting certain answers, cbayer Jan 2012 #17

Conducted by the Southern Baptist Convention? ButterflyBlood Jan 2012 #8

So they want to make themselves look like ignorant idiots? Goblinmonger Jan 2012 #10

They are creationists according to their official resolution on the matter. cbayer Jan 2012 #12

Or maybe they really believe it? n/t Goblinmonger Jan 2012 #13

They probably do. cbayer Jan 2012 #18

I support truth in advertising n/t deacon_sephiroth Jan 2012 #24

By that logic California is pretty representative of the US at large ButterflyBlood Jan 2012 #32

It's threatening to split the church. jeepnstein Jan 2012 #20

Even the Catholic Church does not discount evolution Angry Dragon Jan 2012 #21

Snakes lost the ability to speak? That must have been because of ... MarkCharles Jan 2012 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author Angry Dragon Jan 2012 #23

should be 73% of those polled WolverineDG Jan 2012 #25

Quick - find the MoE on a sample of 1000 dmallind Jan 2012 #30

Most pastors are ignorant about science and many other practical subjects FarCenter Jan 2012 #26

Which may be the explanation for the discrepancy in this *poll* based on educational levels cbayer Jan 2012 #27

If you believe the Out of Africa theory of modern mans spread there was an Adam and Eve Leontius Jan 2012 #28

True, but they weren't living at the same time. LAGC Jan 2012 #29

I have always thought the multiregional theory was more likely but Leontius Jan 2012 #31