Re: How many folks really care?

Murphy (gmurphy@imperium.net)
Fri, 30 May 1997 17:43:59 -0400

John W. Burgeson wrote:

> The more general question is how many people really think about / care
> about origins questions at all (to any significant extent). I think this
> number is very small, in the order of perhaps 10,000 or so, US-wide. Others
> have told me that estimate is far too low.

> Comments anyone?

We'd probably need to distinguish _at least_ 2 groups: Really
hard-core anti-evolutionists think during all their waking hours that
the earth is ~10^4 yrs old & are alert to any infiltration of evolution,
big bang &c into church, education, &c. Their number is relatively
small. Many others practice a kind of schizophrenia in which most of
the time they have some general sense that the dinosuars lived millions
of years ago &c, but on Sunday morning & in other religious venues
imagine that they drowned in the Noachic flood. There are probably many
more of them - but I have no numbers.

George L. Murphy
gmurphy@imperium.net
http://www.imperium.net/~gmurphy