Belief in Evolution by Country

The Economist: Untouched by the hand of God (HT: Brad Wright)

Darwin

I suspect the low numbers in Turkey are due to Islamic beliefs. The low numbers in the United States are likely due to the persistent residual impact of Scottish Common Sense Realism, which so heavily influenced American Christianity in the 18th and 19th Centuries, with its insistence on a "fact-to-fact" utterly historical reading of the early chapter of Genesis.


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