by Rebecca Dube
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
19 Jun 2007
If your picture of creationists is limited to barefoot hillbillies and Republican U.S. presidential candidates, it’s time for your thinking to evolve.
New polls show that a larger share of Americans – 53 per cent – believe in evolution than do Ontario residents, only 51 per cent of whom believe that “human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years.”
Over all, 59 per cent of Canadians said they believe in evolution, according to the Angus Reid poll of 1,088 adults conducted June 12-13. Twenty-two per cent agreed that “God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years,” and 19 per cent told pollsters they weren’t sure. read more…
