In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins

Not “creationist” in the sense of God created the world and man evolved in it according to God’s design, no. No, it’s this:

God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years

AAAAAAARRRRRRGH.

A belief in God (or gods, or whatever) is fine. But a belief that the Earth is 10,000 years old or younger flies in the face of virtually every branch of science. It’s not a matter of reconciling belief with fact; it’s a matter of ignoring fact. A 10,000 year-old-Earth is as logically defensible as a flat Earth or a geocentric solar system.

The one good thing about this survey is that it shows no real trend one way or the other since the mid 1990s.