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Additionally, the concept of cultural relativism, no matter which merits it may or may not have, has nothing to do with the challenge at hand: German anchestry in US citizens has no plausible link at all to evolution denial due to the following facts:
1. German immigrants have a strong culturally imprinted bond to Lutheranism, not Anglicanism. But Evangelical Protestantism is rooted in Anglicanism.
2. Evangelical Protestantism as we know it evolved over 150 years after the last big wave of German immigration to the US. That's easily six to seven generations in which the German cultural heritage mixed with other (mostly white, European) cultural heritages to evolve into mainstream post-civil war American culture.
3. But mostly, only 30% of all Christians in the US indentify themselves as Evangelical. At the same time, 17 percent of all Americans (not only Christians) are of German anchestry. Not all German immigrants were Christians.
After deducting non-white, WASP and other non-German Evangelicals from the 30% Evangelical Christians, that leaves only a small percentage of Christian descendents of German immigrants that could possibly be Evangelical.
4. More than a third of white Evangelicals do not deny evolution. If we assume that evolution denial is spread evenly among the different anchestrys of white Evangelicals, the number of possible evolution deniers among the German-Americans dwindles further.
1. German immigrants have a strong culturally imprinted bond to Lutheranism, not Anglicanism. But Evangelical Protestantism is rooted in Anglicanism.
2. Evangelical Protestantism as we know it evolved over 150 years after the last big wave of German immigration to the US. That's easily six to seven generations in which the German cultural heritage mixed with other (mostly white, European) cultural heritages to evolve into mainstream post-civil war American culture.
3. But mostly, only 30% of all Christians in the US indentify themselves as Evangelical. At the same time, 17 percent of all Americans (not only Christians) are of German anchestry. Not all German immigrants were Christians.
After deducting non-white, WASP and other non-German Evangelicals from the 30% Evangelical Christians, that leaves only a small percentage of Christian descendents of German immigrants that could possibly be Evangelical.
4. More than a third of white Evangelicals do not deny evolution. If we assume that evolution denial is spread evenly among the different anchestrys of white Evangelicals, the number of possible evolution deniers among the German-Americans dwindles further.
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