What are the percentage of creationists in U.S.A.?

Question

how many people out of a hundred accept the creationist theory of evolution

Answer 1

Used to be about 17%. One hopes the % is getting smaller as school gets better.

Answer 2

One thing is for sure, it's the majority of the population of the U.S.A who are creationists.

Answer 3

I shudder at the thought...

Answer 4

Among Americans:

55% believe in creationism (i.e. complete rejection of human evolution)

27% believe in God-guided evolution in humans

13% believe in Naturalistic evolution in humans

48% of Americans don't believe that evolution happens at ANY level.

Fortunately for humanity, this phenomenon seems to be restricted to the United States.

Answer 5

Latest polls say about 45%

Answer 6

One poll (2004) by CBS has has 55% believing god created man and 27% believing in evolution.



Interestingly there was another poll that did a follow up some years later. This poll (1991) had 47% for creationism (God created man 10,000 years ago) and 40% for evolution.(man evolved God guided the process).  However an addition 9% also believed in evolution (man evolved God wasn't involved) End numbers 47% to 49%

A follow up (1997) to the last poll, with the same numbers came out 44% creation 39% evolution with God and 10% pure evolution. End numbers 44% to 49%

However, among "scientists" the numbers to the same questions were 5% 40% 55% End numbers 5% to 95%.

A Harris poll (2005) found 64% agreed "human beings were created directly by God," 22% of adults believe "human beings evolved from earlier species,"10% that "human beings are so complex that they required a powerful force or intelligent being to help create them"  End numbers 74% and 22%.

Enough with the numbers. "Surveys are also fairly consistent in their estimates of how many Americans believe in evolution or creationism. Approximately 40%-50% of the public accepts a biblical creationist account of the origins of life, while comparable numbers accept the idea that humans evolved over time. The wording of survey questions generally makes little systematic difference in this division of opinion."

http://people-press.org/commentary/displ...

Here's the problem with using polls. The issue isn't an "either or" one. It's not a political campaign where negative attack ads will cause voters to switch sides. Every culture, tribe and people  have creation narratives. If people believe in creationism, which theory is the "right" one?

While there's one evolutionary theory, there are numerous creationist ones.

Here are the theories

"Young Earth" Created by supernatural means 6-10,000 years ago

"Old Earth" Earth is millions, not thousands of years old. This theory has several versions:

    "Gap" Earth is old but had fallen into decay. Life was begun on the old planet. This does address fossil evidence.

    "Progressive" God allows certain things natural selection and mutations to occur but will directly intervene as required.

    "Framework Interpretation" holds the Genesis account isn't literal but more represents the outline of how life came to be.

    "Day Age" Here it's held that "Day" can be thousands of millions of years. The world was crated in 6 "days" but it was over a very long time.

"Theistic" AKA  "evolutionary creationism", creation is compatible with  scientific theory (evolution) as it is a tool used by God,

" Literal" God created everything in 6 days right before 23 October  4004 BC. Everything in Genesis is correct and true.

It would be interesting to do a poll that had the follow-on question: Of the current creationist theories, which one do you believe in?"