(Answer key: Numbers are percent of respondents in the Gallup poll choosing the answer and asterisk denotes the correct attribution.)
“Cosmogony itself speaks to us of the origins of the universe and its makeup, not in order to provide us with a scientific treatise but in order to state the correct relationship of man with God and with the universe. Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth, it expresses itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer...The sacred book does not teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.”
a. Charles Darwin 25
b. Patrick J. Buchanan 16
c. Bertrand Russell 20
d. Dale Carnegie 8
e. Pope John Paul II 26*
“Man learns from two books: the universe for the human study of things created by God; and the Bible, for the study of God’s superior will and truth. One belongs to reason and the other to faith. Between them there is no clash.”
a. Charles Darwin 25
b. Pat Robertson 26
c. Bertrand Russell 12
d. Dale Carnegie 6
e. Pope Pius XII 26*
The encyclopedia cites theologian George Forell’s interpretation of “the doctrine of creation as expressing a theory not about the origin of the world” but as describing man’s situation in the world.
a. Encyclopedia of the Episcopal Church 4
b. Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church 14*
c. Encyclopedia of Agnosticism 16
d. Encyclopedia of Atheism 7
e. Encyclopedia of Humanism 54
Resolved to urge its constituents units “to join with others to have creation-science legislation declared unconstitutional when it is in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.”
a. American Civil Liberties Union 47
b. Society for Political Correctness 15
c. United Presbyterians 18*
d. Lutheran Church 15
Affirmed “the glorious ability of God to create in any manner, whether men understand it or not, and in this affirmation reject the limited insight and rigid dogmatism of the ‘Creationist movement.’”
a. Episcopalian 31*
b. Unitarian 40
c. Agnostic 23
“We testify to our belief that the historic Christian doctrine of Creator God does not depend on any particular account of the origins of life for its truth and validity. The assumption that the Bible contains scientific data about origins misreads a literature that emerged in a pre-scientific age.”
a. American Association for the Advancement of Science 50
b. United Church Board of Homeland Ministries 27*
c. Episcopalian 18
The General Assembly resolves to “uphold religious neutrality in public education and oppose efforts to compromise the integrity of public school teaching by the introduction of sectarian religious doctrines such as ‘scientific creationism.’”
a. Unitarian Universalist 15*
b. Michigan Education Association 13
c. National Education association 66
“Whereas, ‘scientific’ creationism seeks covertly to promote a particular religious dogma, be it resolved that the Conference opposes efforts to introduce ‘Scientific’ creationism into the science curriculum of public schools.”
a. National Education Association 52
b. American Association of University Professors 17
c. United Methodist 26*
“[T]he principles and concepts of biological evolution are basic to understanding science students who are not taught these principles, or hear ‘creationism’ presented as a scientific alternative, will not be receiving an education based on modern scientific knowledge ignorance of evolution will seriously undermine their understanding of the world and natural laws governing it, and their introduction to other explanations described as ‘scientific’ will give them false ideas about scientific methods and criteria.”
a. American Association for the Advancement of Science 59
b. Biological Society of America 27
c. Central Conference of American Rabbis 9*
“Each of the major kinds of plants and animals was created functionally complete from the beginning and did not evolve from some other kind of organism. The first human beings did not evolve from an animal ancestry, but were specially created in fully human form from the start.”
a. National Science Teachers Association
b. Institute for Creation Research *
c. National Center for Science Education
Dirty trick: Question number 10 was not a part of the Gallup survey.