The numbers you provided do not directly address the issue that was raised in the OP. Your statistics show that the vast majority of Americans are Christian.
The OP, in his detailed analysis of the numbers, accepts this, but goes further to show that of that Christian majority, a certain number accept evolution and this number is greater than the number of atheists in America. As such, there are more Christians that accept evolution than there are atheists who accept evolution.
This is not at all suggesting that most Christians accept evolution. Nor is it saying there are more evolutionists than there are Christians, or that there are more atheists than there are Christians, or that 85% of the American population is not Christian. All it's saying is that there are more theistic evolutionists than there are atheistic evolutionists.
So, can you tell me why this is important? Can you tell me why it would even matter?
So alot of Christians don't believe the Bible, but rely on man instead of God. Is that something new or good?
Does this matter when it comes to salvation? You know I'm not sure, because if you can't believe the creation story can you believe that Christ really came to earth, that He dead on the cross and 3 days later rose from the dead?
I have heard many who profess to be Christians say they don't believe that Christ was God's son, but just believe He was a good prophet and man. I have heard the creation story denied, the great Flood story denied, and Jesus Christ's resurrection denied by people who call themselves Christians.
I have heard more then one professed Christian say they don't believe there is a hell, or that a loving God would send anyone to a hell. I have heard alot of the Bible dismissed or re-written to make Him more comfortable to the person. Each day I hear more and more of the things that we know about the Lord and the things that have been taught and believe, since the founding of the Church, thrown out for things that seem more................
We are to believe by faith for a reason, and we are warned several times in the Bible to not add to it or take away from it. Yet it seems that daily that is exactly what is being done.
I am attending a free class right now about creation vs. evolution, and yes it is being taught by a Christian science teacher, who is showing that evolution isn't as clear as so many try to say it is.
The teacher ask that we bring questions so that he could better cover the things that we wanted to better understand or that we questioned. So I thought I would come to this forum to find out what is the main things being taught as truth not just theory, and just how really truthful those things are.
I should point out that the stats I posted had nothing to do with this class, but was found through my research.
But it is not either/or for those concerning who is, as you say, "pushing and or proving evolution." That is being done by all evolutionists, be they Christian or atheist or anything in between. Studying evolution is religiously neutral. His stats do not say Christians as a whole are doing anything, they say that some Christians accept evolution.
In the case of the OP, no. It was clearly described, and the math and assumptions were clearly presented, as were links to the statistics used in the calculations. If there is a bias in his presentation, could you point it out specifically?
No, he isn't saying some Christians. Even the title says Most, which is why I was trying to show that the way the stats read were deceiving. We can make just about anything say what we want it to say, and not really be lying. This is why we must really look at the full picture, and both sides to all issues we feel are important.
I was raised during the time when it was taught that the Bible said and so I believe it, and that settles it. After growing in the Lord and His Word I see how that teaching isn't enough or totally right, through.
1 Peter 3:13-17
13
And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good?
14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake,
you are blessed.
And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts,
and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.
17 For
it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
We see in the scriptures that we are to always be ready to tell why we believe the way we do, and so I am studying more of the Word and the things that are being presented out there so that I an do just that.
