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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:
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"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:
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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. [http://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>
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==References==
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