According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” while a third (33%) reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”
Then they go on to state:
A majority of white evangelical Protestants (64%) and half of black Protestants (50%) say that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.
Now I remember my first year in secondary school we had biology and we spent time on evolution. That was a Catholic school and there was not even a peep otherwise. The other half of the class was genetics and DNA, and that was 1957. Our Instructor had just finished his PhD in Biochemistry and was all aghast about Watson and Crick. We may very well have been one of the few classes in New York at the time with a glimmer of what DNA even was.
Furthermore being trained amongst other things as a Botanist, I play around with DNA all the time, albeit rather roughly via hybridizing. Thus the idea of evolution is not only believable but there can be no other explanation given the wealth of facts.
Thus when one sees 2/3rds of the population of one class, a class which I perhaps am not exposed to, believing in something which is so against the facts, I am amazed. But here is the catch from Pew:
Roughly two-thirds of Democrats (67%) and independents (65%) say that humans have evolved over time, compared with less than half of Republicans (43%).
Why am I not surprised. I just wonder where all these folks are? Or is this something that one would like to believe? Just asking, seems too convenient.
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