I notice that real life links a National Geographic article, and not the source survey to which he refers. Furthermore, he sidesteps the issue of what question was actually asked in the survey to which he refers. Instead, he has constantly harped on a contention that 45% of scientists believe that man is the product of a creation. That is not, however, what even the vague and uninformative source to which he does refer has to say:
[qoute="The National Geographic"]Yet in a 2001 Gallup poll 45 percent of U.S. adults said they believe evolution has played no role in shaping humans. [/quote]
In fact, "real life's" alleged "45%" refers not to a survey in the journal
Nature, rather, it refers to a Gallup poll in 2001 of adults in the United States. Even assuming standard technique by the Gallup organization which would assure a reasonable cross-section, and ignoring that we don't have the sample size and the question(s) asked--all that "real life" has shown is that 45% of adults in the United States hold such a viewponit.
He has demonstrated absolutely nothing about the extent to which such an opinion is held by scientists, let alone among earth and life scientists, who are best qualified to judge. Timber has linked a comprehensive survey of life and earth scientists more than once. The memer "real life's" contentions about the
Nature survey has been debunked more than once.
The member "real life" has provided no proof that 45% of genuinely credentialed scientists believe man to have been the product of a direct creation. It is an extraordinary claim--those who make such claims are obliged to provide the evidence, no one is obliged to disprove them.
The linked article, in the paragraph before the one i have already quoted, reads:
Quote:One would be hard pressed to find a legitimate scientist today who does not believe in evolution. As laid out in a cover story in the November issue of National Geographic magazine, the scientific evidence for evolution is overwhelming.
Therefore, in context, the article is pointing out that the general public does not take the same viewpoint as scientists. Later in the article, the author(s) state:
Quote:In a 1997 survey in the science journal Nature
The member 'real life" knows what he is doing in linking an article about a survey, rather than the survey itself. He has proven nothing, and certainly not that 45% of scientists believe that man is the product of a direct creation. Even the article he links does not refer to the text of the questions asked, nor does it give the sample--and it is noteworthy that it refers only to those alleging themselves to be scientists in the United States, and with no reference to what branches of science they allege to pursue.
Very poor work, and disingenuous. Exactly what one expects from creationists who have little interest in the truth, but who are heavily invested in producing an image.
