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My shrink confirms that the Zoloft needs time to work fully, and we also discussed dosage. Initial panic over. :-) Still astonished not to be sleepy all the time. I've basically been knocked out for years by Cipramil, then Lexapro, then Aropax. I hope to gods this one sticks.

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In hopes of showing that "religion" and "scriptural literalism" are not synonymous, I was curious about the proportion of religious people who believe in Creationism, so I started poking around in Google for polls, and immediately ran splat into this brick wall:

"In an August 2005 Gallup poll, 58% of the public said that creationism was definitely or probably true as an explanation for the origin and development of life, but 55% also said this about evolution. Since creationism and evolution are incompatible as explanations, some portion of the public is clearly confused about the meaning of the terms."

http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=118

religioustolerance.org discusses the sometimes contradictory results of such polls. One explanation is that people who accept evolution, but also believe in God, may have difficulty choosing between "evolution" and "creation" as simple alternatives. (If commenting, please read their discussion rather than responding to my extremely brief summary here.)

Further to my previous

Now, if y'all will follow the link like I told you, you can see some of the actual survey questions people are being asked about evolution and creation, with confusing results. Have a look - how would you answer? Could you answer? (I couldn't.)

ETA: Have a quick read of Wikipedia on theistic evolution, which IMHO is a likely explanation for those confusing survey results.