Poll: Creationism Trumps Evolution is a CBS headline summarizing a CBS public opinion poll. Among the startling facts:
45% of Bush voters think Creationism should replace Evolution in the schools. (this is the view of: 37% of all voters; 60% of Evangelicals; 50% of those who go to religious services at least once per week)
13% of Americans think that humans evolved and God did not guide the process.
55% of all voters think that God created Humans in their current form.
The poll is a canard!! Trust me! Now read on:
Like those November 2, 2004 early evening Exit Polls: phoney, phooey, phaked.
It has been done to give comfort to and incite to action a tiny but fervid faction among Butch voters. Gooserock on open thread #148 is correct about dinasaurs: the best anti-Creationist material is found in fossils. It stands to reason, then, that trucking paper maché fac-similies of mammoth elephants and dinasaurs around the country and parking them at the steps of Courthouses where this craziness is happening provides inbuilt refutations of their ditzy sophistries.
The supporting arguments? OK. Harold (be Thy Name) made the world and all creatures absolutely perfect because He is perfect. Right. But then, He made mistakes like the woolly mammoth, and gave up on them. But they were perfection and summonned to life as you see them: one day there were no woolly mammoths and the next day, hordes of them thrived. Right? And then some other day the perfect, intelligent design for woolly mammoths broke down. So it wasn't perfect? Right? Not all that intelligent after all. Did the woolly mammoth leave altered descendance? And what about the auroch, pictured in primitive frescoes? Do they look like cattle? Harold gave up on those, too.
So let's take a look at what your descendance, Sir, will look like when Harold also gives up on your kind. There is no precedent for His persistance in favor of one particular model against unfavourable environmental conditions, in other words, when environmental conditions change, Harold changes His Omnipotent Omniscient Perfectly Infallible Mind. Howzzat?
Take the Dodo, for instance. Harold made those birds so fat n happy they no longer needed wings. When did He take their wings away? Wouldn't it be interesting to find out, and see the Hand of Harold actually at work? We're lucky with the Dodo because you can actually see Harold moving in His mysterious way during the nineteenth century. He extinguished the Dodo by introducing mustkets to the Pacific Island where they survived so long without wings: is this an example of "intelligent design"? Subsidiary question: is Harold a card-carrying member of the NRA?
Why does Harold appear to prefer cane toads to birds of paradise? He also apparently has a beef against rain forests and makes much pain and mischief with disease-causing agents such as bacteria, fungus and microbes, and unleashes them on individual Christians, who call out "Why Me?" when smitten by these intelligently designed protein blobs, which retort without a second thought: Why not?
Harold has kept leprosy alive: how can this be an "intelligent design" choice? He jump-started just recently a virulent form of tuberculosis: what is it about spirochetes that woolly mamoths didn't have? And can you explain to me the Thing He has going on for cockroaches? Why aren't honey bees good enough for Him to save them from Monsanto's Gaucho?
etc., etc., etc..........