Gallup poll: 46% of Americans believe in creationism

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Published: Wednesday, June 6 2012 2:24 p.m. MDT

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A new Gallup poll shows 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism, or that God created human beings in their present form.

Our take: With religion in the limelight, a new Gallup poll shows where the general American public believes humans came from.

SALT LAKE CITY — A new Gallup poll shows 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism, or that God created human beings in their present form.

Pollsters asked participants which of three options for human creation best matched their views on the origin and development of human beings.

Theistic evolution: Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process

Evolution: Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process

Creationism: God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so

Forty six percent of those polled believe in creationism, 32 percent believe in theistic evolution and 15 percent believe in evolution without any divine intervention.

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LDS Liberal

Farmington, UT

Put mem down for Theistic evolution.

Rockets and Airplanes seem to defy the law of gravity like magic
Doctor's seem to cure dieases as if by magic -
but it's just that mankind has learned a new and different set of More..

4:39 p.m. June 6, 2012
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Midvaliean

MIDVALE, UT

@The Truth
How would even begin to guess what YOU would think a perfect GOD would do? Your statement is so arrogant and presumptuous I don't even know where to begin.
Why wouldn't God use evolution as a tool? Why would we More..

7:37 a.m. June 7, 2012
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Maudine

SLC, UT

@ the truth: God, as the creator of laws and rules, is bound by those same laws and rules.

Yes - He could make water flow upwards and he could make the world flat.

But He doesn't. If He expects us to follow his laws, He More..

1:06 p.m. June 7, 2012
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