# Almost 50% of people are YE Creationists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 7, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027 "2003-09-07T02:20:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027/21 "2003-09-08T04:54:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Urban Ranger \* > \*\*If you believe that: > > 1. The earth is young: 6000 years or so, which is the number most often used by YECs > > 2. One species cannot evolve into another: many YECs hold that variations within one species are possible, but “macroevolution” (speciation) is not. > > You’re a YEC. \*\* This is what that Kent Horvind aka Dr. Dinosaur runs around spouting. Is he in the YEC camp then? I’ve never heard him mention it (Young Earth) before. Sorry for the slight hijack, I’ve not heard of the Young Earth/Old Earth terms before. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027/22 "2003-09-08T04:59:41Z")
He surely is a YEC. Check out the [talk.origins](http://www.talkorigins.org/) website. There’s a lot of information on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027/23 "2003-09-08T05:23:17Z")
I’ll just note that the title and the OP together conflate “people” with “Americans”. ---
**Author:** ![Motog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Motog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motog)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027/24 "2003-09-08T07:36:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AndrewT \* > \*\*I’ll just note that the title and the OP together conflate “people” with “Americans”. \*\* Too true. I’d be extremely surprised if even one percent of Australians took biblical creation stories as literal. Even in the conservative catholic schools I went to in my youth, it was treated as being “allegorical”. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027/25 "2003-09-08T11:29:45Z")
That’s right; few European catholics or protestants believe in a Young Earth. However as it happens I live next to some people who are Jehovah’s Witnesses; Almost alone in this country, they believe in a 6000 year old creation. (I am not sure about the state of belief among our Muslim or Jewish community however…) How did it all go wrong in the USA? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027/26 "2003-09-08T11:59:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \* > \*\*This is what that Kent Horvind aka Dr. Dinosaur runs around spouting. Is he in the YEC camp then? I’ve never heard him mention it (Young Earth) before. > Sorry for the slight hijack, I’ve not heard of the Young Earth/Old Earth terms before. \*\* Hovind is a YEC and he’s quite a dishonest one, IMO. [Here’s a good website about him.](http://www.geocities.com/kenthovind/) One thing that I…actually sort of like about Hovind…(waits for the books and other objects to stop being tossed)…Is that he’s more then willing to debate people. He loses (IMO) to be sure, but it’s always nice to hear someone like Massimo run through all of Hovind’s thoroughly debunked objections…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027/27 "2003-09-08T14:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Meatros \* > \*\*One thing that I…actually sort of like about Hovind…(waits for the books and other objects to stop being tossed)…Is that he’s more then willing to debate people. He loses (IMO) to be sure, but it’s always nice to hear someone like Massimo run through all of Hovind’s thoroughly debunked objections…😃 \*\* Oh, you’re not alone. I’ve watched most of the Real Audio stuff he’s got on his web site ([www.drdino.com](http://www.drdino.com)). He’s quite an animated character and at least he pretends to try to use science to back up his claims rather than say “Because God SAID SO!!”. He might have been good back in his high school teacher days before he went fundie. Did you know that he’s now trying to prove dragons existed? I like dragons as much as anybody, but :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: Every time he says “they forgot about the FLOOD” (I just love the way he says flood), I hit him in the head with a soft object or sucker dart. He doesn’t seem to mind this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-50-of-people-are-ye-creationists/200027.md?page=1)