After a chart showing Mormons having the 2nd lowest acceptance of evolution among major religious groups, Razib states:
A series of charts compare members of religions' rejection of evolution with the following:The main surprise here are Mormons. I knew that they had become much more Creationist over the past 3 generations due to their identification with conservative Protestants, but I didn't know that it went this far. In The Creationists Ronald L Numbers states:
In 1935 only 36 percent of the students at the Mormons' Brigham Young University denied that humans had been "created in a process of evolution from lower forms." By 1973 the figure had risen sharply to 81 percent.
- rate of conservativism
- percentage of post-graduates
- importance of religion
- acceptance of scripture as the word of God
The charts can be viewed here.
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