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==Popularity and Scientific Community Consensus==

==Popularity and Scientific Community Consensus==

Roughly 47% of the United States population believes man was created by God pretty much in his present form less than 10,000 years ago (which is one tenet of Young Earth Creationism) and this number has stayed roughly constant for the last 20 years. <ref>http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2004/US/724_public_view_of_creationism_and_11_19_2004.asp</ref><ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401262.html</ref>  A 1997 [[Gallup Organization|Gallup]] poll indicated that 55% of [[United States]] scientists believed that man developed over a period of millions of years from less developed forms of life and that [[God]] had no part in the process, 40% believed in [[Theistic evolution|theistic evolution]], and 5% of scientists believed that God created man fairly much in his current form at one time within the last 10,000 years.<ref>http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm#earth</ref>

Roughly 47% of the United States population believes man was created by God pretty much in his present form less than 10,000 years ago (which is one tenet of Young Earth Creationism) and this number has stayed roughly constant for the last 20 years. <ref>http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2004/US/724_public_view_of_creationism_and_11_19_2004.asp</ref><ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401262.html</ref>  A 1997 [[Gallup Organization|Gallup]] poll indicated that 55% of [[United States]] scientists believed that man developed over a period of millions of years from less developed forms of life and that [[God]] had no part in the process, 40% believed in [[Theistic evolution|theistic evolution]], and 5% of scientists believed that God created man fairly much in his current form at one time within the last 10,000 years. <ref>[http://www.galluppoll.com/content/default.aspx?ci=21814 Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design], The Gallup Poll NOV 6-9 1997. Retreived 07 June 2007.</ref>

 

<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/19991013122341/http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html Views in U.S. Much Different Than Elsewhere], Kenneth Chang, ''ABCNews.com'', 1999.</ref>

According to creationist scientists community, there is widespread discrimination against creationist scientists.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v9/i2/suppression.asp</ref>

According to creationist scientists community, there is widespread discrimination against creationist scientists.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v9/i2/suppression.asp</ref>

This is not surprising given that a poll among United States scientists showed approximately 45% of scientists believed there was no God.<ref>http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/97su/faith.html</ref> In addition, a survey found that 93% of the scientists who were members of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]] do not believe there is a God.<ref>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0.html</ref> Given this state of affairs, a future [[paradigm shift]] from the macroevolutionary position to a creationist position could be slow given the worldviews of many scientists.  

This is not surprising given that a poll among United States scientists showed approximately 45% of scientists believed there was no God.<ref>http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/97su/faith.html</ref> In addition, a survey found that 93% of the scientists who were members of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]] do not believe there is a God.<ref>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0.html</ref> Given this state of affairs, a future [[paradigm shift]] from the macroevolutionary position to a creationist position could be slow given the worldviews of many scientists.