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38% of the white evangelical Protestants who responded to Pew Research Center's survey[1] said that humans have always existed in their present form. But maybe
by subsection1h 6y ago
38% of the white evangelical Protestants who responded to Pew Research Center's survey[1] said that humans have always existed in their present form. But maybe you're right; maybe these people just need more time to become informed. It's only been 160 years since On the Origin of Species was published. We need to be more patient.
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/11/darwin-day/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/11/darwin-day/
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- tone 6y agoI know you're being facetious, but you actually prove the point well. I wonder what that % was 10, 20, 30, 50 years ago. I wonder which direction it's going? But no I'm sure it would be far better if we banned such heretic thoughts and enforced our worldview.
- jfengel 6y agoIt has been fairly stable. Creationism went from 38% in 1983 to 33% today (but with enough variability that it was also 38% as recently as 2017). "God made evolution happen" is another 40-44%, again fairly stable. Given the margin of errors in the polls, I'd say that they're pretty much the same, or a very slight decrease. "It's just evolution" did change noticeably, but it's still only 22%. That's up from 9% in 1983. So presumably the "i dunnos" are decreasing. But nothing seems to alter the misinformation very much.
- viklove 6y agoThat statistic is only meaningful if you also provide the same statistic for other demographic groups.