According to the most recent Gallup poll, 47% of Americans believe that God created human beings
at one time within the last 10,000 years pretty much in their present form, while 49% believe
that human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life,
including 40% who say that God guided the process, and 9% who say that God had no part
in the process.
This pattern of responses is essentially unchanged from the three previous times it was
asked -- first in 1982, and then again in 1993 and 1997.
The poll represents the responses to phone interviews of 1,000 randomly selected Americans
18 years of age or older.
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