Poll for Christians about creation and evolution

[AMumInScotland]

I realised recently that I work on the assumption that most UK Christians believe in some form of evolution rather than direct creation, but I wonder if I'm right or not. I know MN Christians are not necessarily a random sample, but I'd be interested to know at a very basic level whether you believe -

a. all species of life on earth were created in more-or-less their current form directly by God. This may have been in 6 days, or in a longer timescale, but each one is the way it is because God made it so, and there has been only fairly minor change over time and certainly no new species coming into existence because of evolution.

or b. the species currently in existence on earth have evolved from simpler life-forms. This may or may not have been influenced by God to a greater or lesser event. Species have come into existence through a process of change in previous species,

If anyone who does not consider themselves a Christan wants to join in, they're welcome, but could they please give some brief info about their religioous (or atheist) views to clarify.

Yes we've reached -

a 10
a/b 2
b 24
c 1
d 0
e 3

The proportion of people saying they believe in Creation, or some form of it, has gone up later in the thread. So it's not exactly "rare", but still a minority.

But yes, I think the voices that get heard are usually the more extreme ones, so it's not too surprising if most people aren't aware that the proportions have changed.

stories about moderate liberals are more plentiful than stories about moderate evangelicals, lemmetellya...

b
Christian (loosely)
Science background (Physics)

My experience is that biologists, especially evolutionary biologists are more likely to be atheist (Dawkins et al).Physicists, whilst not by any means all Christian (or Theist of other description) seem to have fewer problems believing in God
This is however only anecdotal evidence...

catholic

i think that although science doesn't have the full explaination, that 6 days is bullshit, and i can't for the life of me understand why anyone with half a braincell believes a story written by people who couldn't explain it any other way as they did not know scientifically what we know today.

its mind shatteringly appauling that people actually believe adam and eve existed. - like really existed.

its a story people!

a story to explain how things began, a story of right and wrong, of gods udgment and wrath, a story in absence of anything else saying otherwise at the time.

thats B then

A) (mostly)

Evangelical, Bible-believing Christian. I have no problem with believing that God created the world in 6 days, but I am also quite happy to accept that he may have done it otherwise (i.e. longer time periods, etc).

I think the most important thing for a Christian is that you believe that God created the world (somehow), and that he created man as separate from animals (i.e. in his own image - we are different and here for a totally different purpose), and that his purpose in creating us was to have a relationship with him.

a 11
a/b 2
b 26
c 1
d 0
e 3

(Biologist and not an atheist )