61% of Americans believe world created in six days.

[LSdemocrat]

http://www.pollingreport.com/religion.htm

[slackmaster]

1. And that is why we don't want rule by direct democracy

The majority of people are wrong quite often.

[HereSince1628]

25. Yes, give me rule by the elite. Why not a US system of peers?

Election to Congress could be contingent upon peerage, with membership in the lower house open to those who by nature of their successes could be awarded knighthoods...sort of like the Beatles.

The senate could be made up of true peers. I can hear it now, 'The chair recognizes Sir John, esteemed Lord and Knights Commander, Senator from..." Wow, that would even bring dignity to C-Span broadcasts!

It would all fit very well into the developing system of world domination by corportate fiefdoms. This third way could really put an end to the insufferable political power of the never satisfied working classes.

[hatrack]

2. Dark Ages, here we come . . .

Unbelievable.

[ixion]

3. As historian Will Durant said

85% of the population is only one step out of the cave.

And it's answers to questions like this that prove it, IMO.

[terryg11]

4. that's nice

not very shocking

[wysimdnwyg]

5. This just in...

61% of Americans are morons.


Flame away.

[Cat Atomic]

6. That's actually pretty good, I'd say.

Imagine what those numbers would've been like a few hundred years ago (polling westerners, not Americans, obviously). I think progress moves very slowly.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. If these polls are true, then

we are ignorant and backwards.

[slackmaster]

12. Speak for yourself

I don't consider myself to be part of the "we" to whom you refer.

[DrWeird]

8. Wow, as stupid as they are...

a good twenty percent or so are still intelligent enough to recognize Bush isn't doing a good job.

[umkhonto]

13. I may have to revisit

my decision to naturalize. This is most disconcerting. I wonder what happened in the final days of the Roman Empire?

[Faygo Kid]

9. It is bizarre. But, what is "six days?"

Is God limited to our 24 hour time frame, in this small planet, rotating around this wonderful star, in this average galaxy? This poll result is why George W. Bush will be so tough to beat. Ignorance. Sheer ignorance. Even the Pope accepts evolution. Is he a radical?

[earthman dave]

10. OK, now you're scaring me. 61% ? I imagined maybe 20% tops.

I'm not kidding, that is fscking terrifying. World's biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons, 61% creationist population. Oh shit.

[On the Road]

11. You Have to Go to an Extremely Primitive Region

to get results like this anywhere else in the world. Unbelievable.

[slackmaster]

15. You mean like Santee, California?

http://www.icr.org/museum/

[frylock]

19. or klantee as it's referred to in this neck of the woods..

more Calvin pissing decals per capita than any other city in the nation.

[amazona]

14. i doubt it

I live in Louisiana, which is probably a more religious than average state, and it's nowhere near that number. Even most fundies, when you sit down and talk to them where granny can't heaar, don't really believe the most ridiculous nonsense. Only a tiny minority of crazy people are Old Testament literalists for obvious reasons of common sense and being unable to function in society if you take all that bunk seriously. The minority that do believe in nonsense just make a lot more noise.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

27. My brother out in California....his landlord is....

from Missisippi, 72 years old and a practicing Catholic who
goes to church every week, and guess what...
He does NOT believe that the world was created in six days.
Maybe these numbers have been skewed?

[Jacobin]

16. Can a Monkey Trial be far in the distance?

Jeeze, you ruined my day with that crap.

:-(

[markses]

17. That's nuttin': 72% believe the sun circles the earth!

Ah...but what does circle mean?

Seriously, anyone who believes the earth was "created" in "6 days" is completely divorced from the basic tenets of reality. This is a sickness, and it's a sickness that will destroy us. These people are mad.

[trotsky]

18. I weep for my country.

That is so sad.

[salinen]

20. Wait a minute!

why are we picking on the six day stupidity when there are loads of equally stupid concepts from the bible.

[EV1Ltimm]

26. the "turning into a pillar of salt" thing is undisputed fact...

and if you don't think so, i'll meet you in the parking lot!

:)

[BlueEyedSon]

21. 61% believe in the Noah's ark story.

did he really have a pair of EVERY species?

[Lefta Dissenter]

22. and bush says

"hehe, that's nothin! I could destroy it in six minutes!!!"

[wuushew]

23. I am more concerned about the 8% that believe in blood libel

and the 12% that don't know.

Scary, very scary.

[kodi]

24. perhaps now a deeper understanding washes over as to why facts dont matter

if we believe people who think such nonsense will be swayed by economic facts, we are as nuts as the creationists.

[JanMichael]

And 19% though that they were in the top 2% of Incomes!

It should come as no surprise in a country that hates intellectuals and glorifies idiots.

[Hubert Flottz]

28. I heard it was a non-union job too!

Halliburton tried to steal that contract too I'll bet!

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