Strictly speaking it would be possible for someone to go for option (3) even if they believed in evolution option (1), but thought that 10,000 years ago was about the right sort of time for pre-humans to have evolved into true humans, God-guided evolution being regarded as the method of this creation.

Not a timetable that squares with the fossil record, but people who aren't particularly worked up about these kind of things aren't liable to know much about the fossil record. They were just picking the one of the three answers that felt right to them.

So I don't think Joe is too far off in suggesting too much shouldn't be made of that poll.