Maybe God tweaked the reproductive potential of those members of Homo who had bigger brains. Or there could be differential reproduction or extinction mandated by some undetected interventions of God. God could, as Michael Behe apparently believes, create the right mutations at the right time, circumventing the naturalistic “random” mutations that most biologists accept but that, says Behe, can’t produce complex adaptations. If God is guiding the process, then there has to be some divine, teleological intervention in evolution, just as Intelligent Design advocates propose. In fact, 73% of Americans believe in creationism-if you count those who think that God guided an evolutionary process leading to the evolution of humans “over millions of years from less advanced forms of life”. Here are the data taken since the first survey in 1982.īut in fact the headline is a big underestimate.
That headline seems scary, no? In fact, if you read here regularly, this is pretty close to long-term estimates of Biblical young-earth creationists gathered by Gallup since 1982 (the percentage has varied between a low of 38% two years ago and a high 47% in 1993). Do remember that Tennessee’s Butler Act, whose violation led to the trial of John Scopes in 1925, forbad the teaching of human evolution, not evolution in general. (It’s really belief in human evolution, so be aware that there are many who think that while other species evolved à la Darwin, humans alone required divine intervention.
Over at a Gallup poll site, you can see the headline below reporting the newest iteration of Gallup’s sporadic-now yearly or biennially-survey of American belief in creationism.
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