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Darwin Day & A new Gallup Poll

| Posted on: February 12th, 2009 | Categories: Biology, Evolution, Personal, Psychology, Religion, Science | No Comments »
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Charles Darwin
12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882


On this day, it is sobering to read the results of the latest Gallup Poll: On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution
On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have an opinion either way. These attitudes are strongly related to education and, to an even greater degree, religiosity.

It’s been

for crying out loud!


| Posted on: February 12th, 2009
Other related posts and pages: |Darwin film can’t find distributor | Spore & learning about evolution | Bad poetry time: Clerihews | Jean Baker | Dreams of our futures |


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