New survey of Protestant ministers show most reject Evolution

No big surprise here.

In a new survey of American Protestant pastors by Lifeway, 73 percent of ministers disagree with the statement "I believe God used evolution to create people." Of that large number, 64 percent strongly disagreed. As you might expect, the numbers were close to the same for the question, "I believe Adam and Eve were literal people," with 74 percent strongly agreeing and only 1 percent not sure.

That overwhelming number is tempered by the survey's result on the age of the earth. "The survey of 1,000 ... also found that ministers are almost evenly split on whether the earth is thousands of years old."

Why such high numbers for the former, but not the latter?

Over the last century, Christians have found new ways of approaching the conversation of an old earth. Given the direction of research and scientific consensus, theological positions have taken on creative solutions, such as the Day Age Theory, in which the days of Genesis 1 are seen as ages. This allows for an old earth, according to this position, and a special creation of Adam and Eve without evolution.

The idea of human evolution, however, has not taken a hiatus in the discussion. In recent years, the growing evidence for evolution has prompted more conversation, confrontation and surveys.

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