Thursday, August 01, 2013

Belief In Evolution In The United States



These results are from a YouGov Poll conducted on July 8th and 9th of this year. While enlightening, I found them to be a bit disappointing -- since only a plurality (46%) of Americans believe in evolution (either with or without help from a god), while 37% believe in creationism and 17% don't know what they believe.

It is interesting though to see the rise in the number of people in the last decade who believe in evolution without any help from a god. It has jumped from 13% in 2004 to 21% in 2013. This closely mirrors the rise in the number of Americans who say they are not religious -- which a Pew Research Center survey puts at about 20% (or 1 out of every 5 Americans).

NOTE -- The figures in the middle chart for some religions (Mormon, Orthodox, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu) are compiled from an extremely small samples -- and therefore could have a large margin of error.
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2 comments:

  1. Barry Cochran8/01/2013 4:51 PM

    How do the 13% of atheists who don't "believe in evolution" think life came into being and arrived at its present state?

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  2. Ted McLaughlin8/01/2013 5:05 PM

    That's a very good question. I suspect they just don't want to think about it at all.

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