Talk:Scientific creationism

Why was "most" changed to "many"? I can think of no reason for that change. Is it not the case that most scientists reject "scientific creationism" as unscientific? If so, then the word should be "most". -- Egern

It was changed in:

While many Christians and about 99.9% of scientists accept the theory of evolution and natural selection as the most likely explanation of speciation, most -> many nonscientists do not.

--Taw

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Oh, never mind. I misread the change. My mistake. -- Egern

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Y'know, the words "about 99.9% of biologists" are interesting. I doubt the person who wrote this is familiar with a survey that found that precisely 99.9% of biologists believe this. For all I know, it's 99.999%, or 97.6%. Everybody knows, in any case, that it's a very high percentage. If we don't know that the 99.9% figure, precisely, is correct, then why are we using it? --LMS

The creationism article contains this quote:

In 1987, Newsweek? said: "By one count there are some 700 scientists with respectable academic credentials (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) who give credence to creation science...". Among scientists who work in the field, therefore, only about 0.14% hold the creationist view

That would make Newsweek's estimate 99.86%. I agree, though, that even if the number is accurate, it sounds like just a rhetorical flourish for "nearly all", and in any case, such numbers ought to be attributed as this one is in the other article. --LDC

Yep, here's where a more precise number and a citation of a study would come in handy. --LMS