Poll: Majority Reject Evolution

From CBS courtesy of my old pal Bronze Johnson, who once had a blog, which no longer exists:

Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.

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I must admit that I, as something of a Deist, tend to fall into that thirty percent category that believes that evolution was guided by God. Nonetheless, these poll results are disturbing. A simple majority of Americans now rejects evolution outright. That's pretty nutty: as cosmologist Carl Sagan once said, "Evolution is a fact; it really happened." Indeed, there is no debate about about evolution. It's a fact. Fact. That means undeniable. There is absolutely no rational position from which an individual can argue that humans didn't evolve from an earlier primate species. The upshot of this is that America is now a society in which truth and knowledge themselves are under attack, and the attackers are having great success. I don't think I need to go into great detail as to why this is bad. Suffice it to say that when what passes for truth is controlled by self-appointed holy men, anything is possible. That is, there is no longer any standard for morality or ethics: if "God" says it's so, and the holy men insist it's what God says, then murder, torture, all manner of abuse become thinkable. Oh wait. That's what's happening right now. Did I mention that a culture that abandons science is also abandoning technological advancement? Well, that's happening, too. We're in big trouble.

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