Poll: More Americans Believe in Devil than Darwin
By
Ethan Cole <mailto:ethan@christianpost.com>
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Dec. 03 2007 06:56 AM ET
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071203/30307_Poll%3A__More_Americans_
Believe_in_Devil_than_Darwin.htm
More Americans believe in a literal hell and the devil than in Darwin's
theory of evolution, a new poll found.
Over half of Americans, 62 percent, believe in hell and the devil compared
to only 42 percent of those surveyed who said they believe in Darwin's
theory, according to the findings of the recently released Harris poll.
The poll of 2,455 U.S. adults, taken Nov. 7-13, found that 82 percent of
respondents believe in God, according to Reuters. It further showed that 79
percent believe in miracles, 75 percent in heaven, and 72 percent of
Americans believe that Jesus Christ is God or the Son of God.
Yet Christians are far from a homogenous group and a break-up of respondents
based on Christian traditions shows discrepancies in their level of belief.
Born-again Christians, for example, are more likely to believe in miracles
(95 percent) as compared to Catholics (87 percent) and Protestants (89
percent), according to the poll.
On the other hand, only 16 percent of born-again Christians believe in
Darwin's theory of evolution compared to 43 percent of Catholics and 30
percent of Protestants.
Interestingly, more born-again Christians - a term usually referring to
evangelical Protestants - believe in witches (37 percent) than mainline
Protestants or Catholics, both at 32 percent, according to Reuters.
The poll results, which were released last Thursday, show the high level of
religiosity in the
<http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071203/30307_Poll%3A__More_Americans
_Believe_in_Devil_than_Darwin.htm> United States. It also helps explain the
strong effort to teach the "intelligent design" theory in U.S. public
schools alongside evolution. Intelligent design contends that life is too
complex to have evolved by chance, but rather requires an intelligent being
to design it.
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