The numbers get even weirder if you factor in "Supreme being-guided evolution," a subset of the 60 percent, which takes the "God team" up to around the 57 percent mark of all adults (there's some "don't know" rounding.)

I'd like to see polls like this coupled with questions that establish whether the subjects actually know anything at all about prehistory on this planet. A few sample statements like "Mastodons and dinosaurs lived at the same time" would weed out people who have no frigging idea about anything at all in this area of science and just answer polls according to whatever their environment leaks on them or some random guess. I think people would be surprised how many reasonably-bright Americans don't know jack shit about things that don't directly affect their lives. This is probably the norm. For example, polls indicate almost a third of Americans don't know if the Earth goes around the Sun or vice versa, an ignorance shared by Sherlock Holmes.

I've been watching our liberal crew working very hard to divorce political ideology from intelligent analysis and reason, even to the point of raising the idea of ideology and viewpoints somehow being "inborn" in some way.

I can understand the appeal of this divorce for an ideology that has little actual intellectual ammunition, but as they keep crawling down that rope, maybe they'll look down at some point and see what they're hanging over.

Nah.