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re: I have a hard time believing those polls.

You may not want to believe them, but you could find a pile of additional national polls over the last twenty years that show the same thing. No matter how asked, evolution is less commonly believed then some form of creationism. Generally, more people believe in angels and miracles than believe in Darwinian evolution. Precise numbers will vary with question wording, but the results are really quite consistent.

If we are going to argue from personal anecdote, I could refer you to almost my entire family in Oregon, and every other member of the churches they currently attend.

Likewise, I am dead serious that I work with some PhDs here in Kansas who side with the creationists on the school curriculum debates (one of them also recently opined to me that we ought to go back to making Sunday chapel attendance mandatory for military academy cadets, Jews included).

And then there is speaker of the House Tom DeLay, who has stated that he blames the Columbine massacre on the teaching of evolution in schools.

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