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Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
Canadian Catholic News ^ | 07/18/2007 | Deborah Gyapong
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:12:18 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA, Canada (CCN) - A recent Canadian Press-Decima Research Poll
shows Canadians are divided on the role God played - or did not play -
in the creation of humans.
But that does not mean the Intelligent Design controversy raging in
the United States will come to Canada.
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
"These results reflect an essential Canadian tendency: we are pretty
secular but pretty hesitant to embrace atheism," said Decima Chief
Executive Officer Bruce Anderson. "Our views on the role of science
and spirituality lack consensus but these are not polarizing issues
for the most part."
Science journalist and author Denyse O'Leary, an expert on the
Intelligent Design controversy, agrees the issues have not become
politicized the way they have in the United States. "Canada is a much
more secular country."
"Recently some people have been making noises that the Intelligent
Design controversy is going to be played out in Canada the same way as
in the United States," said O'Leary, author of By Design or By Chance:
the Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe.
"That's nonsense."
American polling figures on similar questions show 20 percent more
Americans than Canadians believe "God created man in his present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," O'Leary, a Catholic, pointed
out.
She is more interested in the 29 percent of Canadians who answered
"that God had not part in the creation or development of human
beings." In Quebec, that figure rises to 40 percent; among Bloc
Quebecois supporters it shoots up to 51 percent.
But some poll figures may surprise those who assume Conservative
voters would be more likely to hold religious views. The poll
indicates that 31 percent of Conservatives believe God played no part,
the same percentage as New Democratic Party (NDP) voters. Only 22
percent of Liberals agree, however.
O'Leary said those figures prove her contention that there is no
"functional religious right" in Canada, nor do religious views
dominate in any a particular mainstream political party. In the United
States, Republicans are much more likely to be creationist or
believers in some kind of intelligent design than are Democrats.
She also points to the much higher proportion of Catholics in Canada -
about 43 percent according to the 2001 Census - and the existence of
publicly-funded religious schools.
"We don't have a government policy of aggressive secularization of the
school system," she said, noting that Americans would be astonished
that Canadians in Ontario, for example, can direct their tax dollars
to Catholic schools that can start the day with a "Hail Mary."
About 77 percent of Canadians identify themselves as Christians, and
an even higher number believe in some kind of God. Yet some of these
people must also believe God played no role in the creation of human
beings, if the Decima figures are accurate.
"There seems to be a fairly large group of Canadians who believe in a
God who doesn't do anything," she said. "I think to some extent that's
what secularism is."
There also seems to be a sizeable proportion of Canadians who hold the
belief that God created human beings 10,000 years go. According to the
poll, 29 percent of NDP and Conservative supporters support that
belief, while 27 percent of Liberals do.
O'Leary pointed out the poll questions may "artificially inflate the
number of people who supposedly think the earth is only 10,000 years
old" - throwing them into the "young earth creationist" camp.
O'Leary said the poll questions make it difficult for a person "who
thinks that God is very much hands on in human life to know how to
respond," because they don't believe God is "merely guiding the
process" but they reject the "young earth creationist" position.
Though the young earth position flies in the face of science, O'Leary
points out there is scientific evidence for "a very small number of
human ancestors."
"There was never any large crowd of cave people," she said, noting as
far as Adam and Eve are concerned, there is not a "big clash" between
the news coming from scientific organizations and the Bible.
O'Leary's latest investigation concerns the nature of the human soul.
Her latest book, co-authored with Montreal neuroscientist Mario
Beauregard, is The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the
existence of the soul (Harper 2007). It will be released in August.
She notes that starting about 100,000 years ago, people started bury
their dead "in a fetal position" with gifts. "I tend to think that
while just exactly what happened is a mystery, that's the point at
which you actually start to get human beings."
"Benedict XVI has been fairly outspoken about our not being some
random product of evolution," she said. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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One fine day in alt.atheism, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com>
bloodied us up with this:
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Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
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What people believe doesn't change reality.
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Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Convicted by Earthquack. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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On Aug 24, 4:12 pm, Uncle Vic <addr...@withheld.com> wrote:
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One fine day in alt.atheism, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com
bloodied us up with this:
Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
What people believe doesn't change reality.
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They're probably the Americans who migrated to Canada |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:10 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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In article <1187920220.098824.214900@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com> wrote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
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I interpret that as 63% accept evolution and only 26% accept the bible
fiction. As in the US, many theists accept evolution.
--
John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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In article <jhachmann-AC37CA.22100223082007@news.giganews.com>, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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In article <1187920220.098824.214900@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com> wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
I interpret that as 63% accept evolution and only 26% accept the bible
fiction. As in the US, many theists accept evolution.
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According to page 6 of the Nov/2004 issue of National Geographic magazine,
"...only 12 percent of Americans believe that humans evolved from other
life-forms without any involvement of a god." |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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On Aug 24, 9:50 am, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com>
wrote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
Canadian Catholic News ^ | 07/18/2007 | Deborah Gyapong
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:12:18 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA, Canada (CCN) - A recent Canadian Press-Decima Research Poll
shows Canadians are divided on the role God played - or did not play -
in the creation of humans.
But that does not mean the Intelligent Design controversy raging in
the United States will come to Canada.
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
"These results reflect an essential Canadian tendency: we are pretty
secular but pretty hesitant to embrace atheism," said Decima Chief
Executive Officer Bruce Anderson. "Our views on the role of science
and spirituality lack consensus but these are not polarizing issues
for the most part."
Science journalist and author Denyse O'Leary, an expert on the
Intelligent Design controversy, agrees the issues have not become
politicized the way they have in the United States. "Canada is a much
more secular country."
"Recently some people have been making noises that the Intelligent
Design controversy is going to be played out in Canada the same way as
in the United States," said O'Leary, author of By Design or By Chance:
the Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe.
"That's nonsense."
American polling figures on similar questions show 20 percent more
Americans than Canadians believe "God created man in his present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," O'Leary, a Catholic, pointed
out.
She is more interested in the 29 percent of Canadians who answered
"that God had not part in the creation or development of human
beings." In Quebec, that figure rises to 40 percent; among Bloc
Quebecois supporters it shoots up to 51 percent.
But some poll figures may surprise those who assume Conservative
voters would be more likely to hold religious views. The poll
indicates that 31 percent of Conservatives believe God played no part,
the same percentage as New Democratic Party (NDP) voters. Only 22
percent of Liberals agree, however.
O'Leary said those figures prove her contention that there is no
"functional religious right" in Canada, nor do religious views
dominate in any a particular mainstream political party. In the United
States, Republicans are much more likely to be creationist or
believers in some kind of intelligent design than are Democrats.
She also points to the much higher proportion of Catholics in Canada -
about 43 percent according to the 2001 Census - and the existence of
publicly-funded religious schools.
"We don't have a government policy of aggressive secularization of the
school system," she said, noting that Americans would be astonished
that Canadians in Ontario, for example, can direct their tax dollars
to Catholic schools that can start the day with a "Hail Mary."
About 77 percent of Canadians identify themselves as Christians, and
an even higher number believe in some kind of God. Yet some of these
people must also believe God played no role in the creation of human
beings, if the Decima figures are accurate.
"There seems to be a fairly large group of Canadians who believe in a
God who doesn't do anything," she said. "I think to some extent that's
what secularism is."
There also seems to be a sizeable proportion of Canadians who hold the
belief that God created human beings 10,000 years go. According to the
poll, 29 percent of NDP and Conservative supporters support that
belief, while 27 percent of Liberals do.
O'Leary pointed out the poll questions may "artificially inflate the
number of people who supposedly think the earth is only 10,000 years
old" - throwing them into the "young earth creationist" camp.
O'Leary said the poll questions make it difficult for a person "who
thinks that God is very much hands on in human life to know how to
respond," because they don't believe God is "merely guiding the
process" but they reject the "young earth creationist" position.
Though the young earth position flies in the face of science, O'Leary
points out there is scientific evidence for "a very small number of
human ancestors."
"There was never any large crowd of cave people," she said, noting as
far as Adam and Eve are concerned, there is not a "big clash" between
the news coming from scientific organizations and the Bible.
O'Leary's latest investigation concerns the nature of the human soul.
Her latest book, co-authored with Montreal neuroscientist Mario
Beauregard, is The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the
existence of the soul (Harper 2007). It will be released in August.
She notes that starting about 100,000 years ago, people started bury
their dead "in a fetal position" with gifts. "I tend to think that
while just exactly what happened is a mystery, that's the point at
which you actually start to get human beings."
"Benedict XVI has been fairly outspoken about our not being some
random product of evolution," she said.
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Broken Trumpet,
The Canadians were essentially Europeans which inherited the legacy of
being fooled by the fairy tale bible.
Very soon, they will follow the footstep of their cousins down south
to embrace ID since their faith have been shaken. Largely due to the
never ending question: "Why did god not show himself"........and "I
can wait in vain for him".
However, ID and Christianity are all but one. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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On Aug 24, 1:41 pm, Ja...@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:
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In article <jhachmann-AC37CA.22100223082...@news.giganews.com>, johac
jhachm...@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
In article <1187920220.098824.214...@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com> wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
I interpret that as 63% accept evolution and only 26% accept the bible
fiction. As in the US, many theists accept evolution.
According to page 6 of the Nov/2004 issue of National Geographic magazine,
"...only 12 percent of Americans believe that humans evolved from other
life-forms without any involvement of a god."- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
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National Geography is a bankrupt magazine.
This magazine suits you, therefore you agree with it. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Only 26% of Canadians are complete idiots. |
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On 24 août, 09:19, hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote:
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On Aug 24, 2:52 pm, parsifa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 août, 03:50, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com
wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
Canadian Catholic News ^ | 07/18/2007 | Deborah Gyapong
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:12:18 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA, Canada (CCN) - A recent Canadian Press-Decima Research Poll
shows Canadians are divided on the role God played - or did not play -
in the creation of humans.
But that does not mean the Intelligent Design controversy raging in
the United States will come to Canada.
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
Funny, I went to catholic schools (in Québec City, Canada btw), was
taught by nuns and there never seemed to be anything contradictory
between evolution AND religious faith.
Why is it such a problem for Americans?
As for the thread, I changed the subject line since, as usual, Sound
was lying...
If I termed you as a MORON, you will always be a moron.
You are worse than a 5th grader when you posted soemthing from the
religious news to show survey results favouring Catholic dogma.....
You are now a NAIVE MORON !-
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Uh... who are you talking to?
An could you repost what you just wrote, this time in English? |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Only 26% of Canadians are complete idiots. |
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On 24 août, 03:50, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com>
wrote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
Canadian Catholic News ^ | 07/18/2007 | Deborah Gyapong
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:12:18 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA, Canada (CCN) - A recent Canadian Press-Decima Research Poll
shows Canadians are divided on the role God played - or did not play -
in the creation of humans.
But that does not mean the Intelligent Design controversy raging in
the United States will come to Canada.
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
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Funny, I went to catholic schools (in Québec City, Canada btw), was
taught by nuns and there never seemed to be anything contradictory
between evolution AND religious faith.
Why is it such a problem for Americans?
As for the thread, I changed the subject line since, as usual, Sound
was lying... |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:50:20 -0700, Sound of Trumpet
<soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com> wrote:
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Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
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Science is not conducted by public opinion polls, Einstein.
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"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux" |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Only 26% of Canadians are complete idiots. |
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On Aug 24, 2:52 pm, parsifa...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 24 août, 03:50, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com
wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
Canadian Catholic News ^ | 07/18/2007 | Deborah Gyapong
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:12:18 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA, Canada (CCN) - A recent Canadian Press-Decima Research Poll
shows Canadians are divided on the role God played - or did not play -
in the creation of humans.
But that does not mean the Intelligent Design controversy raging in
the United States will come to Canada.
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
Funny, I went to catholic schools (in Québec City, Canada btw), was
taught by nuns and there never seemed to be anything contradictory
between evolution AND religious faith.
Why is it such a problem for Americans?
As for the thread, I changed the subject line since, as usual, Sound
was lying...
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If I termed you as a MORON, you will always be a moron.
You are worse than a 5th grader when you posted soemthing from the
religious news to show survey results favouring Catholic dogma.....
You are now a NAIVE MORON ! |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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In article <Jason-2308072241570001@67-150-2-169.lsan.mdsg-pacwest.com>,
Jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:
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In article <jhachmann-AC37CA.22100223082007@news.giganews.com>, johac
jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
In article <1187920220.098824.214900@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com> wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
I interpret that as 63% accept evolution and only 26% accept the bible
fiction. As in the US, many theists accept evolution.
According to page 6 of the Nov/2004 issue of National Geographic magazine,
"...only 12 percent of Americans believe that humans evolved from other
life-forms without any involvement of a god."
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But 50% accept evolution of humans from lower life forms. Many theists
accept evolution too, except for the fundies who delight in their
ignorance.
--
John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com> wrote in
news:1187920220.098824.214900@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868186/posts
Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
Canadian Catholic News ^ | 07/18/2007 | Deborah Gyapong
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:12:18 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA, Canada (CCN) - A recent Canadian Press-Decima Research Poll
shows Canadians are divided on the role God played - or did not play -
in the creation of humans.
But that does not mean the Intelligent Design controversy raging in
the United States will come to Canada.
According to the poll released July 3, 26 percent of Canadians believe
"that God created human beings pretty much in their present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," while 34 percent said "human
beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms
of life, but God guided the process." Another 29 percent say God
"played no part."
"These results reflect an essential Canadian tendency: we are pretty
secular but pretty hesitant to embrace atheism," said Decima Chief
Executive Officer Bruce Anderson. "Our views on the role of science
and spirituality lack consensus but these are not polarizing issues
for the most part."
Science journalist and author Denyse O'Leary, an expert on the
Intelligent Design controversy, agrees the issues have not become
politicized the way they have in the United States. "Canada is a much
more secular country."
"Recently some people have been making noises that the Intelligent
Design controversy is going to be played out in Canada the same way as
in the United States," said O'Leary, author of By Design or By Chance:
the Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe.
"That's nonsense."
American polling figures on similar questions show 20 percent more
Americans than Canadians believe "God created man in his present form
within the last 10,000 years or so," O'Leary, a Catholic, pointed
out.
She is more interested in the 29 percent of Canadians who answered
"that God had not part in the creation or development of human
beings." In Quebec, that figure rises to 40 percent; among Bloc
Quebecois supporters it shoots up to 51 percent.
But some poll figures may surprise those who assume Conservative
voters would be more likely to hold religious views. The poll
indicates that 31 percent of Conservatives believe God played no part,
the same percentage as New Democratic Party (NDP) voters. Only 22
percent of Liberals agree, however.
O'Leary said those figures prove her contention that there is no
"functional religious right" in Canada, nor do religious views
dominate in any a particular mainstream political party. In the United
States, Republicans are much more likely to be creationist or
believers in some kind of intelligent design than are Democrats.
She also points to the much higher proportion of Catholics in Canada -
about 43 percent according to the 2001 Census - and the existence of
publicly-funded religious schools.
"We don't have a government policy of aggressive secularization of the
school system," she said, noting that Americans would be astonished
that Canadians in Ontario, for example, can direct their tax dollars
to Catholic schools that can start the day with a "Hail Mary."
About 77 percent of Canadians identify themselves as Christians, and
an even higher number believe in some kind of God. Yet some of these
people must also believe God played no role in the creation of human
beings, if the Decima figures are accurate.
"There seems to be a fairly large group of Canadians who believe in a
God who doesn't do anything," she said. "I think to some extent that's
what secularism is."
There also seems to be a sizeable proportion of Canadians who hold the
belief that God created human beings 10,000 years go. According to the
poll, 29 percent of NDP and Conservative supporters support that
belief, while 27 percent of Liberals do.
O'Leary pointed out the poll questions may "artificially inflate the
number of people who supposedly think the earth is only 10,000 years
old" - throwing them into the "young earth creationist" camp.
O'Leary said the poll questions make it difficult for a person "who
thinks that God is very much hands on in human life to know how to
respond," because they don't believe God is "merely guiding the
process" but they reject the "young earth creationist" position.
Though the young earth position flies in the face of science, O'Leary
points out there is scientific evidence for "a very small number of
human ancestors."
"There was never any large crowd of cave people," she said, noting as
far as Adam and Eve are concerned, there is not a "big clash" between
the news coming from scientific organizations and the Bible.
O'Leary's latest investigation concerns the nature of the human soul.
Her latest book, co-authored with Montreal neuroscientist Mario
Beauregard, is The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the
existence of the soul (Harper 2007). It will be released in August.
She notes that starting about 100,000 years ago, people started bury
their dead "in a fetal position" with gifts. "I tend to think that
while just exactly what happened is a mystery, that's the point at
which you actually start to get human beings."
"Benedict XVI has been fairly outspoken about our not being some
random product of evolution," she said.
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Benedict, of course, after all is said and done, an orthodox bishop in
the apostolic succession of Christ. He will never accede to the atheist
notion that evolution is a process that exists OUTSIDE of God's universal
sovereignty. And no real Christian ever will. But that does not
exonerate those self-styled Christian apologists who attack evolutionary
theory, not on the basis of metaphysical disagreements with atheism, but
on the basis of not liking the science because it shows their literalism
up for what it actually is: false prophecy.
We are charged by the founder of our faith to be honest in all things.
Thus, when the scientific evidence shows that the genomes of humans and
chimpanzees have a common ancestral genome, we cannot simply deny it out
of hand. Of course that finding poses no problem for REAL creationism,
which is the doctrine that God creates each human soul individually (as
well as souls for other sentient beings according to their nature).
Adam, in the Genesis allegory, stands for mankind. And God is portrayed
as creating mankind out of the "dust of the earth," which could easily
encompass causing our biological bodies to evolve out of existing
animals. But the soul is breathed into man individually and grows and
develops throughout life.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Only 29 Percent Of Canadians Accept Darwinist Dogma |
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George <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote in
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On Aug 24, 4:12 pm, Uncle Vic <addr...@withheld.com> wrote:
One fine day in alt.atheism, Sound of Trumpet
soundoftrum...@mailcan.com> bloodied us up with this:
Poll shows Canadians divided on role God played in human creation
What people believe doesn't change reality.
:-)
They're probably the Americans who migrated to Canada
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Look at the numbers. Actually 63 percent accept evolution in the
biological sense. Another 11 percent claim ignorance, while only 26
percent accept the YEC bullshit.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: Re: Less Than 1 Percent Of alt.atheism Gives a Shit About So |
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"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:19:26 -0700, Budikka666 <budikka1@netscape.net
wrote:
Sound of Farting posts relentlessly. I move that we ignore him from
here on out. His bullshit consists entirely of plagiarized and
unsupported blather from fundamentalist sources, and he never, ever,
ever pretends he can support it in a discussion. In fact, he proves
he cannot support it and that he knows it's bullshit by running from
every question and every challenge.
I spit on him and his ilk.
Budikka
Good move, and not before time.
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