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Old 07-01-2009, 09:08 AM
Deckard
issue 37
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: South Wales
Posts: 1,244
Re: "Missing Link" found!
Belief in evolution: stats!

The British Council has asked, with the help of Ipsos MORI, over ten thousand adults across ten countries from China to the USA, just what they think of evolution.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...5f6KX1PNcN7Z4w

Among the results, the % of people who do NOT think there is scientific evidence for evolution:

Argentina - 7
China - 5
Egypt - 19
Great Britain - 7
India - 2
Mexico - 9
Russia - 8
South Africa - 4
Spain - 5
USA - 24

Yes, I'm looking at that bizarrely high % next to USA.

I recommend you all buy someone a copy of this book when it's released.

Quote:
...from the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects; the 'time clocks' of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution; the fossil record and the traces of our earliest ancestors; to confirmation from molecular biology and genetics. All of this, and much more, bears witness to the truth of evolution. "The Greatest Show on Earth" comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is now flourishing as never before, especially in America.
Gaps in fossil record are not holes in theory, y'all!