[subsection1h]

38% of the white evangelical Protestants who responded to Pew Research Center's survey[1] said that humans have always existed in their present form. But maybe you're right; maybe these people just need more time to become informed. It's only been 160 years since On the Origin of Species was published. We need to be more patient.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/11/darwin-day/

[tone]

I know you're being facetious, but you actually prove the point well. I wonder what that % was 10, 20, 30, 50 years ago. I wonder which direction it's going?

But no I'm sure it would be far better if we banned such heretic thoughts and enforced our worldview.

[jfengel]

It has been fairly stable. Creationism went from 38% in 1983 to 33% today (but with enough variability that it was also 38% as recently as 2017). "God made evolution happen" is another 40-44%, again fairly stable. Given the margin of errors in the polls, I'd say that they're pretty much the same, or a very slight decrease.

"It's just evolution" did change noticeably, but it's still only 22%. That's up from 9% in 1983.

So presumably the "i dunnos" are decreasing. But nothing seems to alter the misinformation very much.

[viklove]

That statistic is only meaningful if you also provide the same statistic for other demographic groups.