scourge99
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This is your claim;
Religious belief and a rejection of evolution are STRONGLY correlated in the US.
Religious belief is directly correlated with a rejection of evolution in America:
Thus, it comes as no surprise to find that there is a strong relationship between church attendance and belief in evolution in the current data. Those who attend church most often are the least likely to say they believe in evolution.
Previous Gallup research shows that the rate of church attendance is fairly constant across educational groups, suggesting that this relationship is not owing to an underlying educational difference but instead reflects a direct influence of religious beliefs on belief in evolution.
Incorrect. The first link is to show that Americans are an oddity compared to other 1st world countries when it comes to accepting evolution. So the natural question is: why?In fact, what your link argues is that there is a stronger religious objection to evolution in the US than in other countries. However, you took that mean most of the religious in the US object to evolution. That's not what your link says.
The second link answers this question. It shows that religiosity is strongly correlated to disbelief in evolution.
I agree that a the majroity of Americans are not vocal anti-evolutionists. But some 25% of Americans reject evolution and are part of that vocal group. You can see examples even here in such posters as Walter and Digsbe.II maintain that the loud minority remains a minority non the less, and in America evolution has a home.
Only 39% of Americans accept evolution. That is pathetic.
Americans who have lower levels of formal education are significantly less likely than others to be able to identity Darwin with his theory, and to have an opinion on it either way. Still, the evidence is clear that even to this day, Americans' religious beliefs are a significant predictor of their attitudes toward Darwin's theory. Those who attend church most often are the least likely to believe in evolution, and most likely to say they do not believe in it.
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