Yeah. I am a Christian and I still think that evolution makes sense. Maybe some idiots (read: anti vaccine) will think evolution is false, but most dont

same, I'm Christian, too, and I believe in evolution.

Me too. Christians come in a wide range though lol, I believe in evolution and my (also Christian) neighbor thinks garlic both cures and prevents all (like, ALL) diseases.

Yeah, but we are not supposed to, Catholics are supposed to be orthodox. only the pope can interpret the bible. Not that it matters since it is still fantasy, is like arguing about who can lift Thor's hammer

That would be a good explanation if evolution was an "opinion", which is obviously not, a more appropriate conclusion would be that christians seem to be so delusional that are not ashamed to defend their wild fantasies in public.. maybe?

Yep, maybe!

Please report to the mother ship.

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Well it's all speculation, isn't it.. none of us were there

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Don't take everything this man says as "gospel". He might be clever in his own field, but he is actually quite idiotic about some things.

All religions are wrong about some of their beliefs, but even contemporary christian canon doesn't deny all evolution. That's mostly a US christian thing, and relatively recent to boot.

"Christism"?

The Vatican officially finds no contradiction between their doctrine and evolution, and my parents both earned divinity degrees from a seminary that, as far as I can tell, treated the Bible as allegorical

Misinformation is misinformation, the members of the Homo genus and Hominidae shown in the chart are not direct descendant of each others and some of them even existed at the same time, as i said it should depict them branching out and in instead of proceding in a straight line. If you are going to be a**l about the superiority of science at least don't use concepts that have been considered outdated in the last 80 years.

Sadly so. I am an atheist, and Trump is demonstrably MUCH less Christian than I am.

Cool. You acknowledge fact. Unfortunately it's completely undone by the admission of continuing to believe fiction.

What fiction, there are more holes in the evolution theory then in the creation theory. Carbon dating isn't super reliable and how does nothing become everything. In this house we follow the laws of thermodynamics.

You might check this article, showing that the answers vary depending on how the question is put, and breaking it down by sub-grouo, including broad categories of Christian: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-many-creationists-are-there-in-america/

Most Christians in the world are Catholics (50,1% according to wikipedia) and catholic canon doesn't prescribe the litteral interpretation of the book of genesis. Protestants are only 30% and split in a milion faction not all of which are young earth creationists. The rest are mostly orthodox (8%) and to my knowledge they see the book of genesis like a myth like the catholics.

Catholics aren't Christians they are catholics. And true Christians believe in creation its pretty important to our belief.

Catholics are the first Christians. And what, exactly, is a true Christian? I am neither Catholic nor Christian, but I am curios ...

Well you were half right. "[Roman] Catholics aren't Christians they are catholics." Too many contradictory doctrines and invented theology to be taken seriously.

One of your many problems is that you don't have a clue what other people think, and you're stupid enough to think a minority of christians have the right answer and speak for the rest of them. You've never even read the bible. What you've read is one particular version of stories that were largely passed down orally for a long time, and then translated and revised and approved by kings before morphing into your particular big book of fables. Most christians, including the head christian, are at least intelligent enough to view their particular bible as parable and metaphor, even if they share your delusion of thinking you'd have any chance of understanding the mind of a magic sky fairy as powerful as the one you believe in.

Yes but you know what everyone thinks, I am an actual Christian I know my belief. I admit I don't know everything but it doesn't change the fact that real Christians believe in creation. And I give two shits about what a Christian leader says the real Christian leader is Jesus himself.

How does nothing explode

Again, if this is USA, its the religious who are driving the creationist belief. https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx

I can judge people as a Christian. It might not mean anything but I can still judge or say that person doesn't act like a Christian, but it doesn't mean anything on judgement day.

But Christians themselves seem to decide “who is a true Christian and who isn’t”. You can’t have it both ways.