{"id":294,"date":"2014-02-05T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/where-do-americans-fall-on-nyeham-debate.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T09:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T14:57:40","slug":"where-do-americans-fall-on-nyeham-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/where-do-americans-fall-on-nyeham-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"Where do Americans Fall on Nye\/Ham Debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0IEbNaWclys\/UvJqT1WjA5I\/AAAAAAAAFLU\/3KGtclsV9sQ\/s1600\/Evolution.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0IEbNaWclys\/UvJqT1WjA5I\/AAAAAAAAFLU\/3KGtclsV9sQ\/s400\/Evolution.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bill Nye, the Science Guy, and Ken Ham (a best-selling Christian author and president\/CEO of \u201cAnswers in Genesis\u201d (AiG),\u00a0debated evolution and creationism last night. Where do most Americans fall on that debate?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2013\/12\/30\/publics-views-on-human-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Pew Research for Religion and Public Life<\/a> asked that question last year. You\u2019ll see, for example that 64% \u00a0of white evangelical Protestants believe that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n<p>The way people view evolution and creationism also breaks down politically. \u00a0Republicans tend to see humans as existing in \u00a0their present form since the beginning of time while independents and Democrats tend to believe in evolution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-17O1rUTBQTo\/UvJoqW6HzrI\/AAAAAAAAFLI\/PgdWqHGbv48\/s1600\/evolution+by+party.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-17O1rUTBQTo\/UvJoqW6HzrI\/AAAAAAAAFLI\/PgdWqHGbv48\/s400\/evolution+by+party.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Nye, the Science Guy, and Ken Ham (a best-selling Christian author and president\/CEO of \u201cAnswers in Genesis\u201d (AiG),\u00a0debated evolution and creationism last night. Where do most Americans fall on that debate? The Pew Research for Religion and Public Life asked that question last year. You\u2019ll see, for example that 64% \u00a0of white evangelical Protestants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where do Americans Fall on Nye\/Ham Debate?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bill Nye, the Science Guy, and Ken Ham (a best-selling Christian author and president\/CEO of &quot;Answers in Genesis&quot; (AiG),\u00a0debated evolution and creationism\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/where-do-americans-fall-on-nyeham-debate.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where do Americans Fall on Nye\/Ham Debate?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bill Nye, the Science Guy, and Ken Ham (a best-selling Christian author and president\/CEO of &quot;Answers in Genesis&quot; (AiG),\u00a0debated evolution and creationism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/where-do-americans-fall-on-nyeham-debate.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World Religions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-05T16:34:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-27T14:57:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2014\/02\/evolution2013-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"420\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"259\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George G. 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