stevevw
inquisitive
The Gallup poll of 2014 reported that 50% of of adults in the US accepted evolution and 42% believed in creationism.
The Pew poll of 12-2013 reported 61% accepted evolution and 33% creationism 12-13
The differences are attributable to different polling methods and are not seen as unusual.
With either one though, less than half (33% and 42%) believed in creationism.
World wide, the numbers look like this:
According to a 2011 IPSOS poll
Belief in Supreme Being(s) and Afterlife Accepted By Half (51%) of Citizens in 23 Country Survey, But Only 28% Are ‘Creationists’
41% identify as evolutionist
28% global citizens refer to themselves as creationists
31% simply don't know.
Here are some of the mainline denominations that accept evolution.
Catholic Church
Episcopal Church
Church of England
United Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church
National Council of Churches USA
The Church of the Nazarene
So your claim that the majority of Christians appears to be very unlikely.
Dizredux
Ipsos Global @dvisory: Supreme Being(s), the Afterlife and Evolution | Ipsos
Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design | Gallup Historical Trends
Public’s Views on Human Evolution | Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project
The survey doesn't clearly state if they were Christians or some other religion or if they were non believers. The questions also is some will believe that God started evolution by creating the conditions for life and it went on from there. Some believe the same but that God then had some other times where he intervened and created extra events. Some will believe the traditional 7 day creation and some the longer tradition creation. Some will believe a mixture of traditional creation but with evolution only within the same kind or gene pool. And there are various beliefs in between these. So the survey doesn't state which of these are.
The believers in evolution may be also the ones that believe in creation. But I agree there has been a shift towards evolution of some form. Thats is fair enough considering we know more now. But the jury is still out on some parts of evolution especially the Macro type from one unrelated kind/type/species.
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