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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)if you're taking it from here (it would always help if you gave a link to what you're talking about - it looks like you still haven't bothered finding the videos you're talking about, so we're all having to work through your individual interpretation and memory of what you saw): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/americans-bible-word-of-god_n_5446979.html
They were asked if they agreed with "The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word". But that doesn't mean that none of the rest don't take significant parts of the Bible as real events, even when they are incompatible with our knowledge of science and history. As I showed, twice that amount think Adam and Eve (the example you introduced) were real historical people.
No, my argument is with your interpretation of the Gallup result. It was about every single word being true (and from God), but you claimed that "the vast majority of Christians believe that much of what is called the Old Testament, and parts of the New Testament as well, are highly symbolic." No; what the Gallup poll told us was a large majority of American Christians accept there could be something that is symbolic, or mistaken, in the Bible (and it contradicts itself at times, so that doesn't tell us much; it might also apply to, say, the stories of Jonah or Job being symbolic). It doesn't tell us how much, or which parts.
If you want to know how many people have beliefs specifically at odds with science, then you have to ask them about the belief - and we find that a majority think Adam and Eve were a historical couple; 41% think humans did not evolve from non-human life; and 37% that God created the Earth in 6 24 hour days. I don't think 63% would be a 'vast majority', and so you cannot say a vast majority even accept basic astronomy, physics, chemistry or biology, but rather take the Bible as the true guide to those areas.
Yes, you did quote Lemaitre; I don't know why you think that's useful. Lemaitre may have recognised a separation, but those 56% of American believers in Adam and Eve don't, and that's who deGrasse Tyson was talking about, not a Belgian priest and scientist (I presume; again, you need to tell us what the YouTube videos were).