>From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/science/08DESI.html
>Polls show that the percentage of Americans who say they
>believe in creationism is about 45 percent. George W. Bush
>took the position in the presidential campaign that children
>should be exposed to both creationism and evolution in
>school.
>Aargh.
>(A certain amount of support there for the Stupid Design Theory.)
I'd be real careful about reading anything into this. By believing
in creationism I suspect that this percentage believe that there is
a God, that God created the universe, and that would be about the
level of their understanding.
I wouldn't let G.W's pandering to a voting block be of any real
concern.
I was raised by hardcore Catholics and became a happy
agnostic/Zennist like many others. When creation tries to go head-
to-head with evolution, it generally loses.
Brian
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