Originally posted by: Luthien
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: Luthien
Yes, of course polls can be skewed and manipulated so show me your own proving an extremely small percentage of christians are evangelical and explain what you mean percentage wise as extremely small. Then show me statistics on the number of Americans that believe man was created as he is today versus other that demonstrates your extremely small percentage of christians believe in creationism over other and again define extremely small percentage. I bet your arguement will fall flat on it's face. Have fun looking for those statistics.
So now we're changing the argument are we? First it's that Christians don't accept evolution, and now it's solely Americans because they're the only group you have any statistics whatsoever on. Since you made the assertion that Christians don't believe in evolution, it really is on your shoulders to prove that. In any case, I'll humor you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ch...ian_denominations_by_number_of_members
Shows out of around 2 billion Christians, only 500 million are Protestant. So we're at 25% there. Baptists and Pentecostals are typically what people refer to as Evangelical Christiants, which makes up roughly 230 million. So we're down to only roughly 12%. Hardly an overwhelming majority of all Christians like you would like us to believe, and relatively a very small number when talking about 2 billion practicing Christians. And that is if we're taking every single Baptist and Pentecostal as Evangelical, an egregious error.
Lol, BigJ I have not changed my arguement at all. I use 55% of all americans as an example within the statistics from my link to make my case it is that simple.
Want some more statistics from the same website you use; here you go!
LINK
And here is the information your looking for since that page is long.
In 2000, a poll by People For the American Way[30] estimated that:
20% of Americans believe public schools should teach evolution only;
17% of Americans believe that only evolution should be taught in science classes ? religious explanations should be taught in another class;
29% of Americans believe that Creationism should be discussed in science class as a 'belief,' not a scientific theory;
13% of Americans believe that Creationism and evolution should be taught as 'scientific theories' in science class;
16% of Americans believe that only Creationism should be taught;
According to a study published in Science, between 1985 and 2005 the number of adult Americans who accept evolution declined from 45 to 40%, the number of adults who reject evolution declined from 48 to 39% and the number of people who were unsure increased from 7% to 21%. Besides the United States the study also compared data from 32 European countries, Turkey and Japan. The only country where acceptance of evolution was lower than in the United States was Turkey (25%).
Again my point is that FAR more than an "Extremely Small Percentage" of Christians believe in creationism and I am absolutely correct.