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Americans & evolutionary theory

Miseducation

Gallup pollsters have been asking people about the issue for a couple of decades, and the answers have remained the same:

  • About 45 percent agree that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."
  • About 37 percent agree that "Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process."
  • About 12 percent chose "Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process."
  • Anti-evolutionism is subject of lecture