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Plain Dealer Ohio Poll: What do we believe about the origins of life?
From the Plain Dealer, June 9, 20002

People were asked: "Which of the following five statements comes closest to your view about the development of life on Earth?"

l. All living things on Earth came from a common ancestor and over millions of years evolved intodifferent species due to natural processes such as natural selection and random chance.

13%

The statement above describes"Darwinian evolution."

2. Living things aret oo complex to havedeveloped by chance.A purposeful force or being that mayor may not be God is responsible fordesigning life as we know it. Evolutionmay be part of such a design.

15%

The statemen tabove describes "intelligent design."

3. God created theuniverse and allliving things asclaimed in the Bible. Creation too kmillions of years and evolution is the method God used to achieve this.

26%

The statement above describes "theistic evolution."

4. God created the universe in the manner the Bible describes, but over along period of time, and the world is millions of years old. God made all living things, including humans, but has allowed some small-scale evolution to take place.

13% The statement above describes"Old-Earth creationism."

5. God created the universe exactly as the Bible describes, in a period of six days, and the world is less than 10,000 years old. God made all living things, including humans, in the form they appear now, and there has been no evolution.

29%

The statement above describes"Young-Earth creationism."

Contact Scott Stephens at:

sstephens@plaind.com, 216-999-4827

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jmangels@plaind.com, 216-999-4842