Polls show that 46% of Americans have creationist beliefs. I’m guessing that these beliefs vary by social strata. So there should be a fair number of Americans for whom 2/3+ of the people they know believe in creationism, while for others it would be one third or less.
I don’t know anyone who believes in it - but I live in the Bay Area and work for a tech company where you need two brain cells to rub together to be employed - so creationists are kind of screened out. Or, if there are any, they are ashamed to admit it.
I am not American, as far as I know even the Christians I know (and that is a vanishingly small number) aren’t Creationists, and instead are relatively pro-Science and logic. I think they like the idea of a Universal Supervisor and an Afterlife more than any Origins of Everything stuff.
I met several people in the US who were creationists, and dang loud about it too. Elsewhere, I’ve never met anybody who’d admit to that in public. Might as well blurt out how much you love shagging your dog…
My nutso aunt doesn’t believe in evolution but she hasn’t talked to the rest of the family in years, except my grandparents to a limited extent. My psycho ex…I’m not sure, never pinned that down exactly. His religious beliefs are nutty but also very selective, so he’s probably not completely anti-evolution.
And I’m sure I know some other people who are creationists but I don’t know that they are (I was raised Catholic). I do know several people who don’t care to opine on it at all, such as my mom.
I live in the South.
2/3s.
It’s like watching gangrene spread…
I suspect my sister does. And she is home-schooling her six kids. :smack:
None. British christians seem very pro-science and space exploration.
Which latter rather precludes strict 7-Day creationism — except… except… — and without snark — some American scientists not only believe in both, but have found the wonders of outer space support creation science.
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I don’t usually hang out with people who believe in creationism (I guess because many of my friends are university-educated people, not because I hate creationists.) There have been quite a few creationist people in my adult-ed course that I’m currently in, though.
Most of my clients are deeply religious Biblical literalists, and so I suppose they probably believe in Creationism, but the topic’s never come up (other religious topics have, but not that one). They are elderly African Americans, most of whom grew up in rural Alabama and Mississippi, and most left school before 8th grade. They’re largely Southern Baptist and Jehovah’s Witness.
So well over 90% of the people I see everyday are likely Creationists, but they’re not part of my family or social group. I don’t know or suspect there are any in my family or social group.
Very, very few that I know of, and none of the people I choose to associate with. Most of my friends are pretty nerdy.
Of those, I don’t think many of them are literal “made in 6 days” creationists. Just folks who don’t really think evolution is a thing. Or, at least, not a thing independent from God.
I have a couple of older family members who can’t quite understand how we “came from monkeys,” so they dismiss that as silliness. I’ve tried to explain it, but it’s too little, too late, and they’re happy with their worldview.
More often, it’s family or coworkers who know the planet’s really old and there used to be dinosaurs and then Neandertals and then modern stuff… but they’re sure God had more to do with all that than any natural process, because it’s all just too complex. I mean, everything works great! Obviously someone had a hand in designing it all!
What pisses me off more than anything is when I encounter a smart, college-educated person, working in the sciences, who doesn’t think this evolution thing is completely legit. During a lunchroom discussion about school curricula, I said something like “sure, but if you do that you open up the floor for teaching creationism, and that’s not good.” One of the supervisors (a medical technologist with 30+ years experience) frowned, shut up, and then soon changed the subject. Really? Really? I was gobsmacked.
I come from a skeptical family, and we all gravitated toward skeptical friends. Even my religious mother, whose life revolves around her church, doesn’t believe in creationism.
Here in Norway, more than 10% does not believe in evolution. I live along the southern coast, and I think most of them live here. We have lots of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pentecostals, Smith’s Friends and other literalist and evangelical sects. In some smaller places they may be a majority.
But still, I answered <1/3, since I know just a few.
None. Not even one
I personally don’t know anyone the buys into creationism and I do not recall it ever coming up in the news here. Much of the population is Catholic and they tend to be a bit more adept at separating religion and science.
I don’t know many Bible literalists. I do know a few who think “God made it happen” and don’t worry about details.
A few years ago I’d have answered ‘zero’ but a couple of girls at my work go to a fairly fundamentalist church, so I’m willing to bet that they do.
I don’t know what most people I know believe in. Most are Christians, but we don’t discuss such things. I only know of one family member who I’m absolutely certain is a Creationist and that’s just because my brother complains about his step-daughter always wanting to argue with him about it.
When I was growing up most everyone I knew believed in it. The church I went to talked about it and I don’t believe we knew it conflicted with evolution at all, because evolution was just some sort of cellular changes we didn’t quite understand. Likely because we only had maybe a page on it in high school and it was very vague. Creationism wasn’t discussed in science class but somehow everyone knew Creationism was how it all began.
I’ve only known one person who was an avid and vocal believer in literal Six Day Creationism and that was around twenty years ago. I’ve likely known people who who believed it “casually” and it just never came up although I doubt any of them were the pseudo-educated “The Apollo capsule should have sunk in 20’ of moon dust!” types. My grandparents, for example, probably believed it but it wasn’t anything we discussed.
I probably do know some but since I never discuss religion (or politics or money) I have no idea how many.