{"id":14338,"date":"2014-01-03T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=14338"},"modified":"2014-01-03T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:30:15","slug":"%ef%bb%bfpew-forum-23-of-americans-believe-in-evolution-no-wonder-the-country-is-going-downhill-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/%ef%bb%bfpew-forum-23-of-americans-believe-in-evolution-no-wonder-the-country-is-going-downhill-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffPew Forum: 2\/3 of American&#8217;s Believe in Evolution &#8211; (No Wonder the Country is Going Downhill So Fast)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LTRP Note<\/strong>: As Lighthouse Trails has stated in times past, evolution is part of what we call the &#8220;death&#8221; religion and the &#8220;new&#8221; spirituality. The article below by Pew Forum on Religion, a liberal, religious think-tank, is posted here for informational and research purposes. See below the article\u00a0for a 10-minute preview clip of Roger Oakland&#8217;s <em>Searching for the Truth on Origins<\/em> lecture series on creation versus evolution. His series explains why morality declines in a nation that rejects the Creator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Pew Forum on Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that \u201chumans and other living things have evolved over time,\u201d while a third (33%) reject the idea of evolution, saying that \u201chumans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.\u201d The share of the general public that says that humans have evolved over time is about the same as it was in 2009, when Pew Research last asked the question.<\/p>\n<p>About half of those who express a belief in human evolution take the view that evolution is \u201cdue to natural processes such as natural selection\u201d (32% of the American public overall). But many Americans believe that God or a supreme being played a role in the process of evolution. Indeed, roughly a quarter of adults (24%) say that \u201ca supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2013\/12\/30\/publics-views-on-human-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lMbsM87Rztc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lMbsM87Rztc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTRP Note: As Lighthouse Trails&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,25,45],"tags":[59,133,234,631,1632,1831],"class_list":["post-14338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationevolution","category-progressive-emerging-church","category-signs-of-the-times","tag-america","tag-evolution","tag-new-spirituality","tag-creation","tag-pew-forum-on-religion","tag-death-religion","wpcat-147-id","wpcat-25-id","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\ufeffPew Forum: 2\/3 of American&#039;s Believe in Evolution - (No Wonder the Country is Going Downhill So Fast) - From the Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/\ufeffpew-forum-23-of-americans-believe-in-evolution-no-wonder-the-country-is-going-downhill-so-fast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ufeffPew Forum: 2\/3 of American&#039;s Believe in Evolution - (No Wonder the Country is Going Downhill So Fast)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LTRP Note: As Lighthouse Trails...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/\ufeffpew-forum-23-of-americans-believe-in-evolution-no-wonder-the-country-is-going-downhill-so-fast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"From the Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LighthouseTrailsResearch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-03T18:17:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-01-03T18:30:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Miscellaneous News Source\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Miscellaneous News Source\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/%ef%bb%bfpew-forum-23-of-americans-believe-in-evolution-no-wonder-the-country-is-going-downhill-so-fast\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/%ef%bb%bfpew-forum-23-of-americans-believe-in-evolution-no-wonder-the-country-is-going-downhill-so-fast\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Miscellaneous News Source\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9fdbcbd48da5f29bb452804f6cac87fd\"},\"headline\":\"\ufeffPew Forum: 2\\\/3 of American&#8217;s Believe in Evolution &#8211; 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