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* '''Universal common ancestor.''' This is the idea that there is some last universal common ancestor, from which all plants, animals, fungi, and other life on Earth are directly descended.
* '''Universal common ancestor.''' This is the idea that there is some last universal common ancestor, from which all plants, animals, fungi, and other life on Earth are directly descended.
* '''A leftist-atheist philosophy.''' This says that man is no better than an animal; that Earth is insignificant; that progress does not exist; that the history of life is unguided, unplanned, and random; and that materialist explanations have replaced all spiritual ones. Various other ideas may also be included, depending on the evolutionist.
* '''A leftist-atheist philosophy.''' This says that man is no better than an animal; that Earth is insignificant; that progress does not exist; that the history of life is unguided, unplanned, and random;<ref>For example, 38 Nobel prizewinners signed a 2005 statement saying that "evolution is understood to be the result of an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection." [http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/sep/15/nobel_laureates_urge_rejection_intelligent_design/]
They appeared to be answering Roman Catholic Cardinal Christoph Schonborn who said that "evolution in sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in neo-Darwinian sense -- unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection -- is not." [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/opinion/07schonborn.html?ex=1278388800&en=95804819e49f4832&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss]
</ref> and that materialist explanations have replaced all spiritual ones. Various other ideas may also be included, depending on the evolutionist.
When evolution is defined simply as "the gradual appearance of new forms of life" over geological time, then 55% of Americans agree with [[biologists]] and [[geologists]] that evolution has really occurred. Disagreement on this point comes mainly from [[Young Earth Creationists]].
When evolution is defined simply as "the gradual appearance of new forms of life" over geological time, then 55% of Americans agree with [[biologists]] and [[geologists]] that evolution has really occurred. Disagreement on this point comes mainly from [[Young Earth Creationists]].
But when defined more narrowly as new forms of life coming into being "without any intervention from God", only 13% to 16% of Americans agree.
But when defined more narrowly as new forms of life coming into being "without any intervention from God", only 13% to 16% of Americans agree.