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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
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Yikes. This is scary:
Over a third of the 1 000 or so Americans quizzed on the issue – in phone interviews by the Gallup Organisation between 7-10 November – seem to believe so. Darwin himself might be surprised to find that today, 145 years after he published his book, only 35% of Americans believe his “scientific theories are well supported by evidence”. Meanwhile, the same number are willing to agree that his theories are “not well supported by evidence”, and 29% “don’t know enough to say”.
Most Americans are not scientists and have probably had little exposure to biology or evolutionary theory since school or college, the polling organisation reports. But it then muses over why the “don’t know enough to say” percentage was not higher? The answer to this begins to appear in the responses to the next question on the origin and development of human beings.
Genesis versus Darwin
The poll shows that 45% of the US population believes human beings did not evolve, but were instead created by God in their current form about 10 000 years ago, as stated in the Bible. Just over half agreed with the alternatives which are more compatible with Darwin’s thesis; that humans developed over millions of years either with or without God’s guidance in the process
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/h...12_21_en.html.
