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10. So they want to make themselves look like ignorant idiots?

Wed Jan 11, 2012, 01:04 PM

Jan 2012

They are the largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant organization. They are pretty representative, then, of Protestants in the US?

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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