According a 1999
[Gallup poll] commissioned
to gather the public's views on the teaching of evolution in public schools (which most favored),
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.
Of that latter 49%, 40% believe that God guided the process, and 9% believe that God had no part
in the process.
The poll represents the responses to phone interviews of 1,000 randomly selected Americans
18 years of age or older.
The responses to questions about belief in evolution are essentially unchanged from the
three previous times they were asked--first in 1982, and then again in 1993 and 1997.
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