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Survey Endorses ID in the Classroom

Cosmic Variance
By JoAnne Hewett
Sep 1, 2005 1:38 AMNov 5, 2019 8:03 AM

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The folks at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press conducted a poll on what is apparently one of our nation's most pressing issues. The result: 64 percent of respondents said they were open to creationism being taught alongside evolution in public schools, while 38 percent favored replacing evolution with creationism altogether. Wow. 42% held strict creationist views, while 48% said they believed that humans had evolved over time (18% of these folks thought that evolution was guided by a supreme being). The poll surveyed 2,000 people, giving a margin of error of 2.5%. You can read about it here. It's not just Kansas anymore.

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