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Good article about surveys<\/a> concerning public acceptance of evolution. It’s more complicated than the numbers indicate.<\/p>\n

By my calculation, that means only 22 percent reject evolution outright. That’s significantly different than the newspaper’s headline. It’s also quite different from frequently cited surveys in the United States that apparently have found more than half the population doesn’t believe in evolution. Those surveys are typically flawed, too, however, or their results are discussed way out of context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good article about surveys concerning public acceptance of evolution. It’s more complicated than the numbers indicate. By my calculation, that means only 22 percent reject evolution outright. That’s significantly different than the newspaper’s headline. It’s also quite different from frequently … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ei","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3335,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3335","url_meta":{"origin":886,"position":0},"title":"Be on the lookout for election season questionnaires","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Candidate qualifying for elected office is now over and those running for various offices are fully engaged in campaigns for the primary elections. 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