1 in 5 Americans believe in pure evolution – and that's good

[klr]

... because it used be worse:

Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure evolution – and that's an upswing
Double that number want creationism or intelligent design taught in public schools


By Rik Myslewski, 23rd July 2013

According to a new poll by YouGov, the number of Americans who believe in evolution not directed by God is rising, but those pure evolutionists still only account for one in five of those surveyed.

Specifically, YouGov asked its "representative sample of 1,000 Americans" how they felt about three versions of human evolution:

Human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, and God did not directly guide this process
Human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, but God guided this process
God created human beings in their present form within the last ten thousand years

When YouGov asked the same question in 2004, only 13 per cent of Americans answered in the affirmative to the first statement. That number rose to 15 per cent in 2008, and its most recent findings, announced on Monday, saw that number rise to 21 per cent.

For those who take a purely scientific view of evolution, that's the good news. The bad news is that 25 per cent of all respondents said that God has guided evolution, and a full 37 percent dismiss human evolution entirely – meaning that 62 per cent believe that God is either guiding evolution or made us all as we are today at our moment of creation, which was within the past 10,000 years.

You can, of course, look at those numbers in another way. As YouGov puts it, "The numbers show that 46 per cent of Americans believe in the evolution of humankind in some form, while 37 per cent of Americans deny this."

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More text and purty graphs here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/23 ... thout_god/

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Considering the level of comprehension of anything by the drones this is a good sign, I think.

[Animavore]

I bloody hate journalism.

"Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure accept unguided, mechanical evolution as a fact – and that's an upswing"

:fify:


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I thought we had a FIFY smiley?

[klr]

I note that there was no survey option along the lines of:

Human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, and God did not directly guide this process, because the fucker does not exist!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I bloody hate journalism.

"Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure accept unguided, mechanical evolution as a fact – and that's an upswing"

:fify:


?

I thought we had a fixed smiley?

[FBM]

I bloody hate journalism.

"Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure accept unguided, mechanical evolution as a fact – and that's an upswing"

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Precisely. It doesn't require belief. Stupid jouralists.