The results for Republicans were 58 percent creationist, 31 percent "God guided," and 5 percent total natural evolution.

That's not too surprising a result.

Democrats? 41 percent, 32 percent, and 19 percent.

If you'd never seen the poll, would you have called that 41 percent number? Or to be more accurate, 73 percent of Democrats think God had at least something to do with our existence.

When I first saw one of these polls, it surprised the hell out of me. But obviously this trend has been almost flat for as far back as Gallup has asked the question. It's reasonable to think the curves are flat even further back.

Almost half of the country thinks, or more accurately professes, that the Earth is only 10,000 years old. 46 percent of college graduates! And yet, we manage to construct a pretty decent scientific civilization.

What's up with that?

That's what needs thinking about. This and other pieces of information I've gathered show me how amazingly compartmentalized human thinking can be. Is this important in a democracy?