A high level of education and a low level of religiosity are combining to indicate, for the first time, that more than half of Americans now say they believe in evolution.
Until about 2007, only about four in ten Americans agreed with the statement that “human beings, as we know them today, developed from an earlier species of animal.” In the last dozen years or so, that number has climbed to 54% – the first time it’s hit a majority, according to researchers at the National Center for Science Education.
Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis says sadly, the numbers aren’t all that different among Christian children. “Ninety [to] 95% of kids from church homes go to the public schools – and they’re indoctrinated in evolution,” he points out. …