But you’re just looking at one particular “fight” (YEC vs evolution). Any theist will need to figure out what the relationship between science and religion looks like for them. Look at how much discussion and “working out” of ideas happens at Peaceful Science, which is one of the lowest-friction forums for discussion of science and faith. It’s just grossly over-simplified to say it’s just “those threatened by the facts” so they can be written off. It is relevant to a majority of Americans.
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I don’t think so. I don’t think a majority of American really care about A&E.
If you take the newer Pew data:
- 18% do not think humans evolved, I’m guessing they will for sure care about A&E, so that’s 59 million people
- 48% humans evolved through God-guided evolution. Say only half of those care about A&E, just to be a bit more conservative. That’s 78 million people
- So total say 137 million people. About 6.2% of all Americans are currently enrolled in college, so that gets us down to roughly 8.5 million currently enrolled college students who may potentially care about A&E.
- Of course 8.5 million will only be rough (and probably a bit high) because the survey responses probably vary based on age. In any case, that still seems like a lotta young people to me.
For me personally, since I do science education in an Evangelical environment, I care about bringing real science to people of faith in a way that helps make their understanding of both more robust. I totally understand you are more interested in one than the other, but I think we can find common ground in helping more people understand how awesome and fun science is.
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ok. Hopefully I can help change those numbers.
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