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it.... CREATION IN THE NEWS August 14, 2008 Angus-Reid Poll shows majority of Canadians believe in Evolution, but.... (Canadians - you gotta read this!) Terry Beh recently brought this poll to my attention (Terry operates an excellent "Fossil news" e-newsletter than anyone can sign up for - just email him at TPBeh@aol.com, and ask to be signed up) The real irony here is that the NCSE has headlined this poll on their website, as thought it was a victory for the evolutionists! Apparently, they didn't actually read the poll, they just read the headliner. Here's this years poll - make sure you download the entire PDF and look it over yourself: http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/canadians_choose_evolution_over_creationism/ Two polls were conducted in July 2008 & June 2007. Here's the average results from across Canada for last month's survey: "Human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years:" 58% agreed "God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years:" 22% agreed "Not sure:" 20% Source: Angus Reid Strategies Methodology: Online interviews with 1,007 Canadian adults, conducted on Jul. 29 and Jul. 30, 2008. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent. You'd think I'd be disappointed right now, but wait for it..... Bizarre numbers in the polls: The June 2007 poll was the same poll that was spurned by the opening of Canada's first permanent creation museum, the Big Valley Creation Science Museum, and this is simply an identical follow-up poll - well, almost identical. (see the first poll here: http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/16178) Another poll (actually taken before the Angus-Reid poll) was more specific, and took into account the theistic evolution position: http://www.decima.com/en/pdf/news_releases/070706E.pdf This of course lined up better with other polls, with the majority of the population believing in a Creator God, if you include the theistic evolutionists. The Toronto star had called last year, asking for my opinion on the June 2007 poll, and I'll repeat what I said here: The numbers are about what I would expect. Why? Every poll taken shows that the majority (in both Canada and the US) believe in a creator God - so why does this poll show the majority believing evolution? It's because of the wording of the questions: The question relating to evolution would include theistic evolutionists - that is those who believe God used evolution. In fact, you'll notice when you read the June 2007 poll that they had a second question about dinosaurs and humans living together, and the majority believed they did! (42% agreed, 37% disagreed) This flies in the face of evolutionary belief, and reflects the beliefs of some theistic evolutionists. The stunning effectiveness of Creation museums: Strangely, though this year's poll is a repeat of last year, they left off the second question pertaining to dinosaurs and humans living together for this poll - I wonder why? There is also a couple of very noteworthy changes in stats between the two polls: Alberta was the only province that had more people choose creation over evolution. What a coincidence! Alberta is home to the Big Valley Creation museum, Creation Truth Ministry's creation museum, and the Bow Island Creation museum. Interestingly, it is also home to the largest dinosaur museum in the world, the pro-evolution Royal Tyrell museum. The stunning turn-over: Let's praise the Lord together because we now are seeing the effectiveness of Creation museums! There was a *whopping* turn-over in opinion in Alberta in the past year - the year following the opening of two permanent creation museums in Alberta. Last year 58% of Albertan pollsters believed evolution, whereas a mere 28% believed God created human beings in their present form in the last 10,000 years. 14% said they weren't sure. Clearly the majority believed in evolution and rejected the young-earth creation model. Now check out the major turnover in this year's poll of Albertans: 37% believed we evolved (down 21 points from 58%!), 40% believed in a young earth creation (up 12 points from 28%), and 23% said they didn't know (up 9 points from 14%)! What happened? So what happened this past year? All of the other provinces retained roughly the same opinion - what made Alberta so special? The impressive Royal Tyrell museum is still there, promulgating the evolutionary myth to the almost half a million people that come through its doors every year. I can only think of one thing that happened this past year which could affect the statistics like this: The opening of two creation museums. Nothing else changed! Except the opinion of the populace at large in Alberta, and of course, this was the whole reason for the Angus-Reid poll - to take the pulse of the Canadian people's reaction to a Creation museum opening up. ...wait until we get one built in Ottawa, our nation's Capital. Other news:
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