Gallup: Plurality of Americans skeptical about evolution

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42% of Americans believe essentially in young-earth creationism. It's no wonder that we are losing ground to other countries.

If one wants to put God in the universe, then talk about His Presence in establishing mathematical and physical laws. Change either the Periodic Law of the elements or the binding curve of nuclear energy, and everything goes awry. Allow 4 electrons in the s shell of the atom, and hydrogen is no longer a gas. Make calcium the low point of the binding curve of energy and we lack enough iron for hemoglobin, let alone copper for certain technologies essential to civilization. Make zirconium the low point of the binding curve of energy and we have much suffocating krypton in the lower atmosphere of a planet.  Make the carbon atom too large, and respiration becomes difficult because carbon dioxide forms a glassy solid instead of a mobile gas.