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==Popularity and Scientific Community Consensus== | ==Popularity and Scientific Community Consensus== | ||
Roughly 47% of the United States population believes man was created by God pretty much in his present form less than 10,000 years ago (which is one tenet of Young Earth Creationism) and this number has stayed roughly constant for the last 20 years. <ref>http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2004/US/724_public_view_of_creationism_and_11_19_2004.asp</ref><ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401262.html</ref> In 1997 in the [[United States]] there was a Gallup poll done among scientists showing that 55% believed that man developed over a period of millions of years from less developed forms of life and that [[God]] had no part in the process, 40% believed in [[Theistic Evolution]], and 5% of scientists believed that God created man fairly much in his current form at one time within the last 10,000 years. <ref>http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm#earth</ref> | Roughly 47% of the United States population believes man was created by God pretty much in his present form less than 10,000 years ago (which is one tenet of Young Earth Creationism) and this number has stayed roughly constant for the last 20 years. <ref>http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2004/US/724_public_view_of_creationism_and_11_19_2004.asp</ref><ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401262.html</ref> In 1997 in the [[United States]] there was a Gallup poll done among scientists showing that 55% believed that man developed over a period of millions of years from less developed forms of life and that [[God]] had no part in the process, 40% believed in [[Theistic Evolution]], and 5% of scientists believed that God created man fairly much in his current form at one time within the last 10,000 years. <ref>http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm#earth</ref> | ||
A 1997 | A 1997 Gallup poll indicated that 55% of [[United States]] scientists believed that man developed over a period of millions of years from less developed forms of life and that [[God]] had no part in the process, 40% believed in [[Theistic evolution|theistic evolution]], and 5% of scientists believed that God created man fairly much in his current form at one time within the last 10,000 years.<ref>http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm#earth</ref> | ||
According to creationist scientists community, there is widespread discrimination against creationist scientists.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v9/i2/suppression.asp</ref> | According to creationist scientists community, there is widespread discrimination against creationist scientists.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v9/i2/suppression.asp</ref> | ||
