{"id":12531,"date":"2014-04-10T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryantriangle.wpengine.com\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2022-11-08T04:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:27:38","slug":"triangle-poll-about-origins-draws-a-record-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/triangle-poll-about-origins-draws-a-record-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangle poll about origins draws a record response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>By Meredith Kreigh<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Managing Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Triangle\u2019s most recent online poll elicited a higher response than any other poll, getting nearly 300 more votes than its nearest competitor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0The question \u201cwhat do you believe about the origins of the universe and man?\u201d reflected the hot debate taking place at Bryan over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0Of the 566 people who participated in the poll, 226 (40%) said they believed in a literal six-day creation, consisting of 24-hour days. Exactly half as many, 113 (20%), voted in favor of at least intelligent design, while 109 voters said they believed in theistic evolution. Only a few votes behind, 92 (16%) voters endorsed Darwinian evolution.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0Only 26 (5%) of the participants admitted that they simply did not know.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0Junior Robin Harrison said that, in the heat of the moment, she answered in favor of theistic evolution but after reevaluation decided she was more along the lines of \u201cdon\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u201cI definitely think God could have used evolution without it undermining Scripture\u2019s authority. &#8230; However, this much I am convinced of: for the Christian, the topic of origins is far more complicated than a simple \u2018the Bible says this\u2019 or \u2018the science says this\u2019 conclusion,\u201d Harrison said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever be able to say \u2018God definitely created this way\u2019 because we might not ever have everything figured out about origins \u2014 we were not there. And maybe that view, the view that we might not have all the answers, requires the most faith,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0That \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d line pervades many students&#8217; responses. Sophomore Bryan Alderman said that though he wanted to participate in the poll, he decided against it. He said there just wasn\u2019t an answer that was quite right for him, falling somewhere between six-day creation and intelligent design.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0Since Triangle started publishing polls, they have averaged at 70 voters per poll. This single poll registered over eight times more voters than that average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Meredith Kreigh Managing Editor Triangle\u2019s most recent online poll elicited a higher response than any other poll, getting nearly 300 more votes than its nearest competitor. \u00a0The question \u201cwhat do you believe about the origins of the universe and man?\u201d reflected the hot debate taking place at Bryan over the past few months. \u00a0Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4684],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16090,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions\/16090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}