Roma

I read somewhere (I think on IIDB) that YEC-ism is primarily an American thing. That is, most Christians in other parts of the world have accepted evolution and a non-literal interpretation of Genesis. Does anybody know if this is true and/or have any links to stuides/polls about this?

-Roma

Kevbo

I've noticed that there are many YEC clans in Australia.

Albion

Well, the USA has a higher proportion of fundamentalist Christians than most other western countries, and creationistm goes hand in hand with fundamentalism. On the other hand, I gather creationism on the increase among fundamentalist Moslems in Turkey.

Blinn

From what I understand, it is primarily an American thing, but Australia, followed by Great Britain, also have a fair amount of cretinists.

Monkey

It's basically unheard of here on the west coast of OZ, except when my lecturers are bagging it, it's mainly an east coast thing if anything. I have never heard of any push to get any time whatsoever for creationism in the primary secondary or tertiary cirriculum. I don't think I actually know any Christians (ie family and friends), never mind fundamentalist creationists.

Apparently, there are more people of "no religion" than catholics in Australia according to the last census, although I got that info second hand so I'm not sure how accurate it is.

Dr.GH

There are even Islamic creationists

Harun Yahya
http://www.harunyahya.org/Eng/homeeng.html

who basiclly mimic fundy Christian creationists. They are brothers unsder the skin afterall.

Doubting Didymus

Excuse me, but we australians are nowhere near britain when it comes to creationists. We just have more famous ones, like Ken Ham, who we don't even take responsibility for anymore, and socrates from theologyweb.

I don't know the figure on catholics, but the christianity figure is about 50%, the other small religions and cranky cults like bhuddism ( ), are 25%, leaving a big fat quarter of our population religion free.

Importantly, there has never been any significant religious challenges to our science education standards in living memory that wasn't shouted down in infancy, and us without a church state separation clause.

Coragyps

I found it!-from a 1999 Gallup survey reported here.

Excuse me while I go make myself vomit.

Edit - the sidebar on that page may refer to votes of those who read this page when it first was published - it's hard to tell where it came from.

johngalt

Once again, Americans are gullible to religion.