Evolution: 60% Believe

In my more than six and a half decades on this earth, I have developed a certain quantity and quality of physical skills. For those of you that know me, you are aware that I can play a fairly decent game of golf – still. Another proficient physical skill in my repertoire is that I no longer drag my knuckles when I walk.  That’s right, in a little over sixty-six years I have evolved to the point that I walk somewhat upright.

What stimulated an evaluation of my physical skills is some research conducted by the Pew Research Center on how Americans feel about evolution - http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/. 

A short summation of the research shows that 60% of Americans believe that we (us as humans) got here by evolution) and 33% believe we were created as we are. (7% do not know – perhaps looking the missing link in all of this.)

The details of the survey are quite interesting, very informative and downright scary from an evangelical point of view. If you take time to review the research by religious groups, the results should cause us to wonder what the heck is being taught from the pulpits of Evangelical and Catholic churches in America. The results should strike fear in the souls of evangelical Christians. A greater acceptance of evolution is a greater acceptance of a more secular, godless lifestyle and culture.

So I believe the question is quite simple and straightforward: Is that where we want to go?

You can find a more detailed analysis of this research here http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?id=41766.