# What share of those you know believe in Creationism? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2013, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708 "2013-09-26T07:18:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708/81 "2013-09-28T00:55:52Z")
Wife’s family - 100% YEC My side -100% hell-bound evolutionists ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708/82 "2013-09-28T01:57:12Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > I was out with a colleague at work one day when the conversation fell to religion, he described his belief in the literal word of the bible, I burst out laughing only to see his distinctly unamused face, “No, I really do believe that…” > > Whoops, until that point my knowing interaction with real-life creationists was zero. > > I’m from Northern Ireland, I knew hardline biblical literalists existed, I just had never met one before. Down here the only creationists I’ve ever met were Jehovah’s Witnesses. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708/83 "2013-09-28T02:04:42Z")
I get the feeling that in much of the Northern U.S. and Canada, few people really privately believe in creation, but most people pretend to believe in it if asked. (it’s a safer public stance to take) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708/84 "2013-09-28T02:07:02Z")
I think there are more old-earth creationists than you think. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708/85 "2013-09-28T03:31:50Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > I think there are more old-earth creationists than you think. Speaking as a (former) Roman Catholic from Ireland, the most Catholic country outside Poland, old-earth creationism seemed to be the line that we were fed. They never really went into specifics but the early bible as allegory was pretty much a given. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708/86 "2013-09-29T03:30:18Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > I get the feeling that in much of the Northern U.S. and Canada, few people really privately believe in creation, but most people pretend to believe in it if asked. (it’s a safer public stance to take) I live in a US Western coastal state. I grew up in the Northeast. I’ve knowingly met a handful of creationists in my life. Like around 2 maybe. If anybody tells me that they don’t believe in that evolution stuff, my opinion of them ratchets downwards. It’s sort of like saying you don’t believe in calculus or aircraft carriers. Incidentally, there’s an admittedly polemic article at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that applies [my definition of creationism](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/creationism/), or at least something like it. “With significant provisos to be noted below, Creationists are strongly opposed to to a world brought on by evolution, particularly to a world as described by Charles Darwin in his Origin of Species.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-share-of-those-you-know-believe-in-creationism/669708.md?page=4)