A Science aborda a Public Acceptance of Evolution (The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States.)
O gráfico está no Renas e Veados: cerca de 20 por cento de portugueses não acha que "Os seres humanos, na sua forma actual, evoluíram a partir de espécies antecedentes".
O "Intelligent Design" ou "Divine Design" a funcionar por cá?
[act.: Nearly Two-thirds of U.S. Adults Believe Human Beings Were Created by God + Science and Nature Polls (via "Studying the non-scientific")]
[act.1: U.S. Lags World in Grasp of Genetics and Acceptance of Evolution: The study found that over the past 20 years:
* The percentage of U.S. adults who accept evolution declined from 45 to 40 percent.
* The percentage overtly rejecting evolution declined from 48 to 39 percent, however.
* And the percentage of adults who were unsure increased, from 7 to 21 percent. [...]
[Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education] says the news is not all bad. The number of American adults unsure about the validity of evolution has increased in recent years, from 7 to 21 percent, but growth in this demographic comes at the expense of the other two groups. The percentage of Americans accepting evolution has declined, but so has the percentage of those who overtly reject it.
"I was very surprised to see that. To me that means the glass is half full,? Scott said. ?That 21 percent we can educate."]
