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OMG.
Actually, since Gallup simply makes things up I really doubt that half of Americans (unless you include children) really think that God created humans 10,000 years ago. I don't think they'd use a figure (10,000) that precise.
They are more apt to say, duh-er-duh, 400 years ago, a billion years ago? After all, most people under the age of seniority have no idea who we fought during the Vietnam War. They have no idea what Thanksgiving is about either.
The rumor is that the Hubble telescope, after having determined that the universe is maybe 14 billion years old, has been scrapped because it doesn't agree with the Bible which doesn't put a date on the creation of the universe in terms of billions of years.
The triumph of the Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism, the Nazis, the other fascists, superstition and sheer laziness over facts.
I saw an interesting theory about the Salem Witch Trials. There may have been a bacteria or fungus that infected the grains that people ate which had an effect similar to LSD. Could-a been they actually saw visions. You eat some bad food, you get hanged...nice species us humans. |
