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Poll: One-Third of Texans Believe Men Once Co-Existed With Dinosaurs and Over One-Third Believe That Man Was Created by God 10,000 Years Ago Without Evolution

A University of Texas and Texas Tribune poll has found that roughly one in three Texans believe that humans and dinosaurs walked the Earth at the same time and more than half reject the theory of evolution. According to the poll, 38 percent agreed with the statement “God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago.”

Another 38 percent said human beings developed over millions of years with God guiding the process while another 12 percent said that development happened without God having any part of the process.

An amazing 51 percent disagreed with the statement, “human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.” Only thirty-five percent agreed with that statement.

The Texas school system has called for greater Bible reading in schools, here.

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115 thoughts on “Poll: One-Third of Texans Believe Men Once Co-Existed With Dinosaurs and Over One-Third Believe That Man Was Created by God 10,000 Years Ago Without Evolution”

  1. AY,

    Yes, I’m sure Elaine is familiar with Josephus as well. As she proved with that lovely birthday video she found for me, “Librarians Know Where To Find It!”

  2. AY,

    Since actual archaeological finds have resulted from examination of his writings, I’m going to answer exacting qualified with “as any historian”. The hubbub about his being considered a Pharisee in no way detracts from his now proven merit as a historian.

  3. Ummmhmmmmmm, Buddha……. Do you think that his works are exacting or revisionist? Depending on whom you read in the critique of his works, you might find dubious honor.

    Ok, you can throw Elaine M., in the works too. She was after all a librarian…

  4. I’ll also bet neither Vince nor Bob would have to Google the old boy either.

  5. AY,

    In re Josephus

    Bet what? No matter. I’ll take it. 😀 Some of us heathens are well read.

  6. Professor,

    This might be considered important in a number of peoples lives.

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    http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/8-major-benefits-of-new-credit-card-law-1.aspx

  7. AY:

    I have no trading cards at all if by trading cards you mean baseball cards, etc that come from bubble gum packages.

  9. AY:

    I actually do know who Josephus was. But have only read a very small portion of his work. I am not in the same category as the 2 Mikes and Mespo, they have a huge knowledge of the classics and mine is piddling.

  10. Lottakatz:

    what about modern man? he suddenly appeared on the scene about 50,000 years ago. Aliens drop him off?

  12. ECookie,

    Contrary to you ascertainment. The true southern gentleman would never let you know if they did not. However, you would likely know where you stand in any altercation. But if people from the South remember History, they should be deeply indebted to the British when there was that little ole thing called the war between the states.

  13. AY:

    why did you bring up Flavius Josephus? Hoping he actually did document a certain someone? Feeling a little spiritual this fine morning?

  14. davisoftheapes1, transitional fossils…

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html

    Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestor FoundJamie Shreeve
    Science editor, National Geographic magazine
    October 1, 2009

    “Move over, Lucy. And kiss the missing link goodbye.

    Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.

    The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female nicknamed “Ardi.” …

    The biggest surprise about Ardipithecus’s biology is its bizarre means of moving about.

    All previously known hominids—members of our ancestral lineage—walked upright on two legs, like us. But Ardi’s feet, pelvis, legs, and hands suggest she was a biped on the ground but a quadruped when moving about in the trees.

    Her big toe, for instance, splays out from her foot like an ape’s, the better to grasp tree limbs. Unlike a chimpanzee foot, however, Ardipithecus’s contains a special small bone inside a tendon, passed down from more primitive ancestors, that keeps the divergent toe more rigid. Combined with modifications to the other toes, the bone would have helped Ardi walk bipedally on the ground, though less efficiently than later hominids like Lucy. The bone was lost in the lineages of chimps and gorillas.”
    —

    Time and opportunity are the twin ghods that render every possibility probable. If you need a less complex example of evolution just consider the common roach and what a boon it is to the makers of insecticides. Roaches become resistant (evolve as a species) to posions so quickly that re-formulating insecticides every so often is necessary to kill them:

    http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=619&page=257

  16. ECookie,

    We don’t like the likes of them folks in Texas. Nope, never. Some people don’t. I could really care less. I am of the I don’t give a shit class. We are born, we do somethings and occupy space and we die. At the end, who really gives a shit? I bet not a person on this list except save Mike A. Mespo and or Mike S., could say that they know who Flavius Josephus is and at this juncture could give a shit who he was. I did not know him but he was somebody at one time.

  18. Elaine,

    “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” – Adolph Hitler channeling his Minister of Propaganda Herr Goebbels

    And thanks for the laugh.

  20. anon nurse,

    One lives to be of service. May the road rise to meet you today.

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