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you kind of need to follow your own advice there. "all should consider themselves Creationist" would be considered pretty silly, or at least absolutely debatabl
by tessierashpool 8y ago
you kind of need to follow your own advice there. "all should consider themselves Creationist" would be considered pretty silly, or at least absolutely debatable, in the church I grew up in (a very unremarkable suburban Presbyterianism). the Bible itself contains two contradictory creation stories.
I think the overwhelming majority of Christians fit into the "the two mutually contradictory creation stories in Genesis could not be taken literally even if they didn't contradict each other" camp that I'm most familiar with, or, at most, are nearer the "could be billions of years" end of your spectrum.
edit: after a little Googling, it looks like 51% of US Christians accept a "but it was God's idea" version of evolution, i.e., evolution is how it works, God set evolution in motion. and we probably all know that the US is the only technologically advanced nation with such a high percentage of evolution skeptics. but if it's about all Christians, worldwide, evolution skeptics could be the majority, given that technologically non-advanced countries may contain the majority of the world's Christians.