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The article reporting It needs more data on how it was constructed as a study. Even thought it didn't have much to go on from the link above, it's poor reporting. Are that fifty-two percent who didn't know humans evolved from another species, religious or are they not familiar with the term species-could have thought different species meant frog or something, not Hominidae?
26% of the people surveyed didn't know the Earth orbited the sun? Someone should write on their heads "DUMB" it would save everyone else so much time and trouble.
Maybe we need to stop using terms such as 'sunrise' and 'sunset' and "the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west' and 'watching the sun sink behind the horizon"
I notice there is no link to the survey in the article so we can see for ourselves how the questions were posed. A Foundation conducted it. Foundations are always looking for more money. I will withhold judgment.
"According to the poll, 19 percent of Protestant pastors expressed certainty that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and that God created life in its present form in six 24-hour days."
Let the record show "quite a few" is almost one in five.
FTR, the Hebrew word "yom" may literally refer to the period of daylight in a day, a complete day or a specific day. It may also figuratively refer to a season, a year, the period of creation, eternity, etc.
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