This statement boggles my mind. But fully 45% of this nation believes that "God created humans in their present form sometime in the past 10000 years":
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060608-111826-4947r.htm
If you take out the "10000 years" then you get 55% believing God created man in his present form:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/22/opinion/polls/main657083.shtml
Only 40% believe evolution is correct:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060810-evolution.html
USA has the second-lowest percentage of people believing in evolution, out of a survey of 32 developed nations. We fall behind Croatia, Latvia, and Cyprus. Only Turkey ranks even lower.
This is a serious statement about the condition of our society. Without understanding evolution, you're basically cut off from most of biology. It's going to be hard for you to accept a scientific way of thinking. This may be the greatest obstacle to building moral consensus as rational members of society.
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