Difference between revisions of "Evolution poll"
From Conservapedia
m (Added another poll, replaced dead link, reformatted references) |
DavidB4-bot (Talk | contribs) m (→top: HTTP --> HTTPS [#1], replaced: http://books.google.com → https://books.google.com) |
||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
<blockquote> | <blockquote> | ||
| − | "Gallup polls have shown that about 45 percent of Americans believe God created living things in their present form a few thousand years ago; about 40 percent believe that things evolved over a long time with God’s guidance; while only a little more than 10 percent accept Darwin’s theory that things evolved through unguided natural selection and random variations."<ref>Wells, J. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EEBCAB1AC8C4F67&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM ''Evolution for the masses'']. Washington Times; (September 23, 2001) </ref></blockquote> | + | "Gallup polls have shown that about 45 percent of Americans believe God created living things in their present form a few thousand years ago; about 40 percent believe that things evolved over a long time with God’s guidance; while only a little more than 10 percent accept Darwin’s theory that things evolved through unguided natural selection and random variations."<ref>Wells, J. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EEBCAB1AC8C4F67&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM ''Evolution for the masses'']. Washington Times; (September 23, 2001)</ref></blockquote> |
In 2007: | In 2007: | ||
<blockquote> | <blockquote> | ||
| − | A USA Today/Gallup poll taken on June | + | A USA Today/Gallup poll taken on June 1–3, 2007 listed 18 per cent of the population as accepting evolution as "probably true" and 28 percent rejecting evolution as "probably false."<ref>Stewart, M.Y. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=d1dS0rMnh2cC&lpg=PA257&dq=%22believe%20in%20evolution%22%20percent&pg=PA257#v=snippet&q=%2218%20percent%20of%20the%20population%20as%20accepting%20evolution%22&f=false "Science and Religion in the Public Square"] in ''Science and Religion in Dialogue, Volume 2''. John Wiley and Sons, West Sussex; p. 257. (2010)</ref> |
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
Latest revision as of 15:51, September 26, 2018
An evolution poll is a means of determining the popularity of the belief in evolution. A number of polls have shown that people are more likely to reject the theory of evolution than creationism.
In 2001:
"Gallup polls have shown that about 45 percent of Americans believe God created living things in their present form a few thousand years ago; about 40 percent believe that things evolved over a long time with God’s guidance; while only a little more than 10 percent accept Darwin’s theory that things evolved through unguided natural selection and random variations."[1]
In 2007:
A USA Today/Gallup poll taken on June 1–3, 2007 listed 18 per cent of the population as accepting evolution as "probably true" and 28 percent rejecting evolution as "probably false."[2]
References
- ↑ Wells, J. Evolution for the masses. Washington Times; (September 23, 2001)
- ↑ Stewart, M.Y. "Science and Religion in the Public Square" in Science and Religion in Dialogue, Volume 2. John Wiley and Sons, West Sussex; p. 257. (2010)
