Public’s Views on Human Evolution
Found on PewResearch on Monday, 30 December 2013
According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” while a third (33%) reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”
Roughly a quarter of adults (24%) say that “a supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today,” while about a third (32%) say that evolution is “due to natural processes such as natural selection.”
Even more than 150 years after Darwin wrote "On the Origin of Species" only a third accepts his views while the rest believes in a collection of fictional stories with some imaginary being.