On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 10:43:13 AM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:




" A 2009 poll by Harris Interactive found that 39% of Americans agreed
with the statement that "God created the universe, the earth, the sun,
moon, stars, plants, animals, and the first two people within the past
10 000 years."

'Trouble reading your own quotes, Klausy?


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Ed Huntress

I can read the statement in two ways. One is " God created the universe, the earth, the sun, moon , stars, plants, animals. And the first two people within the past 10,000 years. " Now I am not saying this is the correct way to read it. If you think about the punctuation , the statement clearly says god created all those things within the past 10,000 years. What I am saying is that anyone being surveyed might have misunderstood it , and think it means that two people were created in the past 10,000 years. And the earth could have been created millions of years before humans.

I think most people believe that the earth was created way before humans. And that humans as we think of them only originated about 10,000 years before Christ. So it should be expected that people would misread that sentence.

Dan

On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 08:35:12 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 10:43:13 AM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:




" A 2009 poll by Harris Interactive found that 39% of Americans agreed
with the statement that "God created the universe, the earth, the sun,
moon, stars, plants, animals, and the first two people within the past
10 000 years."

'Trouble reading your own quotes, Klausy?


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Ed Huntress

I can read the statement in two ways. One is " God created the universe, the earth, the sun, moon , stars, plants, animals. And the first two people within the past 10,000 years. " Now I am not saying this is the correct way to read it. If you think about the punctuation , the statement clearly says god created all those things within the past 10,000 years. What I am saying is that anyone being surveyed might have misunderstood it , and think it means that two people were created in the past 10,000 years. And the earth could have been created millions of years before humans.

I think most people believe that the earth was created way before humans. And that humans as we think of them only originated about 10,000 years before Christ. So it should be expected that people would misread that sentence.

Dan

Surveys like this are highly dependent on how questions are worded. If
you write a question that sounds like it challenges the word of the
Bible, you're going to get a high pro-Bible result. If you ask the
same question in specific terms that we might call "scientific,"
you'll generally get a more scientifically conventional result.

The original point that dudu had made here, if these were normal
conversations, probably would have branched into that discussion.
Instead, off it went into one of the Klaus/Scout/etc. attack jobs, in
which they never miss an opportunity to put someone down in order to
stroke their own egos.

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Ed Huntress