Here's the result of the latest Newsweek Poll published on March 31, 2007. The poll was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
These numbers don't make a lot of sense. For example, 39% of non-evangelical protestants think that God made humans only 10,000 years ago. But only 24% think that evolution is not well-supported by scientific evidence. Does that mean 15% think that evolution could be well-supported but they don't believe it anyway?
And what about the 58% of Catholics who think that evolution is supported by evidence? How did those Catholics answer the previous question? How 'bout those atheists/agnostics! Wouldn't you like to meet the 27% who think that God guided evolution or the 13% who think that humans were created quite recently? Does this mean that the "agnostics" include a significant number of believers? If so, then it suggests that calling yourself an agnostic in America is compatible with belief in the literal truth of genesis. Maybe these people have a truly sophisticated, philosophical, definition of "agnostic" in mind when they answered this question.
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