Views about human evolution among Christians by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among Christians by views about human evolution
% of Christians who say humans…
Interpreting scripture | Evolved; due to natural processes | Evolved; due to God's design | Evolved; don't know how | Always existed in present form | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 11% | 22% | 2% | 60% | 5% | 9,031 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 18% | 38% | 3% | 37% | 3% | 8,437 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 8% | 20% | 5% | 50% | 17% | 889 |
Not the word of God | 48% | 28% | 5% | 16% | 3% | 4,891 |
Other/don't know | 23% | 29% | 11% | 26% | 10% | 1,800 |
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