Some facts:
– Over the past 20 years, the percentage of US adults accepting the idea of evolution has declined from 45% to 40% and the percent-age of adults overtly rejecting evolution declined from 48% to 39%. The percentage of adults who were not sure about evolution increased from 7% in 1985 to 21% in 2005.
– About a third of American adults firmly rejected evolution, and only 14% of adults thought that evolution is “definitely true”.
– The proportion of European adults who thought that evolution was absolutely false ranged from 7% in Denmark, France, and Great Britain to 15% in the Netherlands.
