More scary stuff on creationism

31 August 2005, 1704 EDT

Today’s New York Times reports the results of a current Pew Forum poll:

The poll found that 42 percent of respondents held strict creationist views, agreeing that “living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.” In contrast, 48 percent said they believed that humans had evolved over time. But of those, 18 percent said that evolution was “guided by a supreme being,” and 26 percent said that evolution occurred through natural selection. In all, 64 percent said they were open to the idea of teaching creationism in addition to evolution, while 38 percent favored replacing evolution with creationism.

The full article can be found here.

And if you want to see just how inane the claims of ID proponents are, check out this site.