A majority of Republicans have doubts about evolution, and more Americans believe in the creationism theory, according to a new Gallup poll.
This "suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did not believe in evolution, they were generally in sync with the bulk of the rank-and-file Republicans whose nomination they are seeking to obtain," Frank Newport writes for Gallup News Service.
"Independents and Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe in the theory of evolution," Newport adds. "But even among non-Republicans there appears to be a significant minority who doubt that evolution adequately explains where humans came from." ...
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