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Is ID largely supported by Christians?

Dave S.
December 18, 2006
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In America, you bet. 80% of the American population is Christian. Do the math. Connect the dots. Anything with broad support in America can be expected, not surprisingly, to have 80% of its support from Christians.

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Shaner74, you bring up an interesting point. We now have 4 questions: 1 - Are most IDers Christians. (corrolary, is it supported to a level significantly higher than society's average.) 2 - Are most Darwinists Athiests? I propose not, in that true, non-agnostic, Athiests are a fairly rare breed. 3 - Are most Athiests Darwinists? Proposal is "yes". 4 - Are most Christians IDers? I propose that the answer here is no. I would bet that most Christians haven't thought about the issue enough to say. If they have an opinion, it is regurgitated from the teaching of their particular church. A lot of Christians are YEC. The Catholic, Anglican and other communities have been told that "evolution is ok", therefore many of those are Darwinists.bFast
December 18, 2006
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I've never, and I mean never, encountered an atheist who didn't place their faith wholeheartedly in Darwin.shaner74
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Is Darwinism largely supported by atheists?mike1962
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To be frank, it doesn't make sense to be any kind of theist and not believe that there are some intelligently designed systems in the universe. Even a theistic evolutionist believes the 'process' of evolution is intelligently designed. It's been bizarre watching all the fallout over the Judge Jones animation. There is the section of the IDers blasting people for not adhering to Christian principles. There is the Dawkins fansite / PT lot blasting IDers for the same thing, whilst simultaneously calling IDers every derogatory name under the sun (and what moral basis does a materialist Darwinist criticize anyone as long as they have passed on their genes!) One grows weary of having one's beliefs continually ridiculed and I think a lot of intellectual Christians have pinned their hopes on the ID movement to give non-materialistic beliefs more credibility in the eyes of the world...something which Creationist groups have largely failed to do. Those of you publically working on ID may not have chosen this, but you are now being held to a very high standard because of this. At the end of the day though, the correctness of any philosophy or scientific theory is not determined at all by who supports it.Rowan
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