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> No option for creationists who believe humans were created more than 10000 years ago. Why doesn’t ‘God guided but happened over millions of years’ cover that

> No option for creationists who believe humans were created more than 10000 years ago. Why doesn’t ‘God guided but happened over millions of years’ cover that?

elgenie 4y ago
A God entity snapping its fingers 10,001 years ago fits neither "guided" nor "over millions of years" nor "less than 10,000 years ago".
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- chrisseaton 4y ago
  But 10,000 is closest, so why wouldn't they pick that option?
wizofaus 4y ago
Because "guided" isn't obviously compatible with the "act of special creation" for humans that is an inherent part of many religions. Definitely agree that the survey results are likely to be skewed because of the lack of an option that suits those who believe in special creation but not the "10 thousand year" timeline. Especially if they think 100s of millions of years is wrong (anatomically modern humans haven't been around anything like that long!).
cortesoft 4y ago
Because that isn’t what creationists believe. They believe God created man in his image, and humans have not changed at all over time. ‘Young Earth creationists’ believe that happened like 6000 years ago. Other creationists say it happened before that. Either way, the key is that humans have not evolved at all.
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  > ‘Young Earth creationists’ believe that happened like 6000 years ago. Other creationists say it happened before that. Either way, the key is that humans have not evolved at all. But that's all already covered by option 3 - they can pick that option.
  - cortesoft 4y ago
    Sure, but then you have no way of distinguishing which type of creationist they are, which will lead to concluding more people believe the earth is under 10k years old, which is exactly the problem we are talking about. There should be either a separate option for creationists who believe the earth is older than 10k years, or remove the earth age part from the question.
    - chrisseaton 4y ago
      > which will lead to concluding more people believe the earth is under 10k years old You'd only conclude that if you haven't actually read the study. It says to select the closest option to your opinion.
      - cortesoft 4y ago
        The whole point of this thread is that the title said 40% believe the earth is under 10000 years old. We were commenting on why the title is incorrect.

> No option for creationists who believe humans were created more than 10000 years ago. Why doesn’t ‘God guided but happened over millions of years’ cover that?

elgenie 4y ago

A God entity snapping its fingers 10,001 years ago fits neither "guided" nor "over millions of years" nor "less than 10,000 years ago".

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chrisseaton 4y ago
But 10,000 is closest, so why wouldn't they pick that option?

wizofaus 4y ago

Because "guided" isn't obviously compatible with the "act of special creation" for humans that is an inherent part of many religions. Definitely agree that the survey results are likely to be skewed because of the lack of an option that suits those who believe in special creation but not the "10 thousand year" timeline. Especially if they think 100s of millions of years is wrong (anatomically modern humans haven't been around anything like that long!).

cortesoft 4y ago

Because that isn’t what creationists believe. They believe God created man in his image, and humans have not changed at all over time. ‘Young Earth creationists’ believe that happened like 6000 years ago. Other creationists say it happened before that. Either way, the key is that humans have not evolved at all.

chrisseaton 4y ago
> ‘Young Earth creationists’ believe that happened like 6000 years ago. Other creationists say it happened before that. Either way, the key is that humans have not evolved at all. But that's all already covered by option 3 - they can pick that option.
- cortesoft 4y ago
  Sure, but then you have no way of distinguishing which type of creationist they are, which will lead to concluding more people believe the earth is under 10k years old, which is exactly the problem we are talking about. There should be either a separate option for creationists who believe the earth is older than 10k years, or remove the earth age part from the question.
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    > which will lead to concluding more people believe the earth is under 10k years old You'd only conclude that if you haven't actually read the study. It says to select the closest option to your opinion.
    - cortesoft 4y ago
      The whole point of this thread is that the title said 40% believe the earth is under 10000 years old. We were commenting on why the title is incorrect.