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I am fairly vocal about my lack of patience for Young Earth Creationism.  There is a quote attributed to former US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that does a good job of crystallizing my issues with these folks: "You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts."

Often when I voice my concern about Young Earth Creationists and their beliefs, there are two common responses:
1) Nobody really believes that, do they?
2) Why does it matter if they want to believe that stuff?


First, yes, many people actually believe that the earth is between 5,000 and 10,000 years old and that human beings were created in their present form (Adam and Eve are, naturally, according to these folks, the universal ancestors of all humans).  Most of the time, the people who doubt that these people exist live in places like New York or Boston or San Francisco.  I invite them to come visit North Carolina sometime.  

According to a Gallup poll in December 2010, approximately 40% of Americans believe in Young Earth Creationism, rising to over 50% among Republicans (but falling quickly as the level of education increases -- hmmmm).


Secondly, we should be greatly concerned that this many Americans are this misguided (or willfully ignorant, as the case may be).  This means that 40% of Americans
a) do not grasp basic biology and geology concepts, and/or b) willfully ignore the evidence, as well as the not-at-all-controversial scientific consensus regarding the age of the earth.
And only 700 out of 480,000 US earth

19 Comments

Good post thanks

22 months ago

Thank you Raul - appreciate you stopping by :)

22 months ago

Excellent post,sweetie....thanks for sharing!!!

22 months ago

Hello Roy - Good to see you and thank you for reading !

22 months ago

very nice post here jolynn.... keep up the good work and posting more and more blogs ^_^

22 months ago

Thank you harold! You too - I just discovered and have enjoyed your blogs too!~

22 months ago

Let,s discuss Christian Logic in a christian Rational way,, ( not ours ) Let,s believe that we can trace the earth,s age by counting back the history of the bible to adam abd Eve from the Gardem of Eden and christians will tell us that earth must be no more than 6000 years old...!!..So Christian Logic will try to tell us that the massive caverns of oil..and gas reserves..and uranium and coal and iron ore etc..were never formed over millions or billions of years..What happened folks was that God dug out the earth and filled it with all these goodies...coz he knew that man would get smart and make motor cars and nuclear plants and to use gas for lots of purposes etc etc....Now that is the real truth according to christians as how all these minerals and gas and oil got in the ground....See..it,s simple Christian Logic..!!.....Now..always remember that most Americans have never picked up a bible and read it from front to back...and why should they..!!.......When all they have to do is to turn up to church and sit there eating biscuits and drinking wine..... relaxing while ministers open the bible for them and read selected passages to them...Again that,s christian Logic...So why are you non believers not going to church and listening to the truth..And lastly you non believers..if this earth is 4.5 billion years old... then christian logic will tell you that,s impossible,, coz that far back there would not have been anyone around to write the Bible and jesus wasn,t here that long ago... So the bible must be Right..!!

22 months ago

Why do Christians hate me Jolynn...------ I,m a nice person,,.. Why do they call me a devil coz i don,t eat meat......Why do they call me a Pagan worshipper......Why do they threaten me with violence and tell me if i don,t believe in God and join their cult...i,m gonna get thrown into the lake of Fire.......Where is this lake of Fire....Is it hot there......I thought God said to love thy neighbour...I feel hurt and unloved now..I,m so lonely without any christian friends.....but i have my dog..he loves me..so life is still happy.

22 months ago

@Bob- good morning and good points all. I had someone send me a drawing of Adam and Eve plowing their fields with dinosaurs yoked up instead of oxen LOL....that was PROOF I was told. Put that in my pipe and smoke it!-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ It's impossible to be rational about many aspects of the bible (or any religion for that matter), because it involves magical thinking. Something a rational adult truly does not do.-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+You have to believe an angel gave a man magical plates about an ancient civilization that existed in North America yet left zero geological record (Mormonism), you have to believe a man sitting in a cave had an angel appear with a magical horse and he rode flying horse to heaven and came back down and had the experience written down (Islam) and finally Christianity, where a virgin was told by an angel she would give birth to the son of God. He was crucified and rose from the dead still with his wounds and ascended into heaven never to be seen again (except for all those wood grain and whole grain sightings). Along with a lot of other unbelievable, scientifically impossible stories.

22 months ago

Good morning to you too Jolyynn,,,I,m worried sometimes about your state of mind regarding christian belief,s....but i guess your well enough to handle all this.....Actually .?? I was thinking about finding some dinosaurs D.N.A.....and breeding some to eat meat...So when they grow up i can tie them up outside Christian Churches to eat all the believers and cull them to stop them from contaminating this world with all this medieval make believe magic... It,s funny how society allows them to promote false images of Jesus all over the world in their churches and bibles and the rest of their goods that they sell to build bigger churches....If i put a false face ( other than mine ) in an advertisment in the paper..then that would be classed as false and misleading advertising------- but christains can portray Jesus in a million fake images and get away with it... How come all those medievil miracles have stopped ?/ Is god taking time off for a holiday?? When i was born my parents never christened me Jolynn--- and i thank them for that..coz i spent all my life studying all religions with an open mind...and i,ve come to the conclusion that christians who spend their life with their head stuck in a bible..reading and being taught reppetitive suggestion as in written words...must end up with a mind that is entrenched in unbelievable magical medievil ancient stories that were written for those times..it,s simply called religious doctrine..Doctrine is brainwashing and mind control..and some religionslike the new Iglesia Ni Cristo with the latest prophet felix Manalo..who declared he dropped out of the sky about 1920 to save the world..they actually pride themselves on using the words doctrine..and if you study their method of control over their flock..you will understand what doctrine is...// Anyway I,m gonna rise from my computer and pull the nails from my hands and make a cup of tea and go to bed..--- Any adult that closes their brain off to only 6000 years as the bible teaches us..must surely be brain dead and insane...and easily led.....

22 months ago

@Bob hahahaha you just made my entire week to come with that comment! I've had a few encounters with followers are Manalo on here - actually I had only lightly encountered that sect prior to FanBox.... whew! that sect is a piece of work!~ Have a splendid night!

21 months ago

Christian Science,,,regarded as The Real Truth of Creation.( know all,s Know nothing ) will tell us that according to the Bible ( God,s Word )..that Australia doesn,t exist..and it must be true,, coz Australia is not mentioned in the Bible at all...Those Medieval believers had no idea that Australia or New Zealand was on this flat or round planet....And Noah didn,t round up any Kangaroos to save and take on his holiday ark for a year,,coz there are no Kangaroos in this world.( that,s the truth )..Just read the Bible.!! And by the way you learned christians....In 1967,,, The Australian Government passed a law that makes the denial of the existence of Australia Illegal --- So far 560 people have been prosecuted for Australia Denial ( all brainwashed looney Christians )....Most normal people living here fully accept that Australia exist..!!---------- And where does Bob Hogarth live ..!! well the real truth is that i live in Heaven,,coz Australia doesn,t exist..( just read the Bible ) ---

21 months ago

@Bob- Wow it's hard to believe someone would so blindly follow a bad idea as to ignore the existence of a continent. I am incredulous. Thanks for sharing that tidbit - very interesting!

21 months ago

Jolynn...I have some Hot News for you about why Dinosaurs are not directly mentioned in the Bible...Ok,, the answer is... that they only survived between a 6 day period which was when God created everything..and so they died out before the Bible was written..!!..and they were only given the name Dinosaur after their remains were found...long after the Bible had been written....It,s simple.. The word Bemoth used in the bible...is actually a hippo or elephant...it doesn,t mean Dinosaur at all.. So Dinosaurs are only app, 5-6000 years old...and now i,m trying to find out what happened to the millions of bodies and fossilized bones from the Great flood..Those Fossils should be in the ground all over the world,,but so far none has been found...

21 months ago

@Bob - but we learned at the Creationist Museum that Tyrannosaurus Rex (the holiest of dinosaurs) prayed for the Fall of Man so he could eat meat! LOL....

21 months ago

Ok,, Jolynn,,I,m confused,,sometimes i neeed help and i read the Bible to get the correct answers..To be honest,, i became a vegan to trick the meat eating Dinosaurs not to eat me for dinner....I,m thinking of going to Church to see Father ( Trick Me Up )..and getting some advice...Maybe i,m reading the wrong versions of the Bible,,coz there were versions written before the Old Testament wsa published that were excluded from the late versions... Like the King James Version..that some cults use..!! I guess if it took more than 1000 years to write the bible..by many people..then...maybe it will take us 1000 years to understand it....I think i,ll go and make a cuppa tea and study the tea leaves and see what they reveal.,, hehehe....Don,t 4get that you promised to sell me one of your first Baby Dinosaurs.when you recreate their D N A. and breed them to eat Christians.. ( silly) hehehe..

21 months ago

Hey Jolynn..There was a greyhound race here to-day,,,and the dog won at the nice price of $10.20..And guess what that dog was named... You guessed it...TEE REX ( dinosaur..hahaha..

21 months ago

I really hope you bet on that one LOL.....

21 months ago