Educational distribution among adults who say humans always existed in present form by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say humans always existed in present form by educational group

% of adults who say humans always existed in present form who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA61%28%6%5%191
Assemblies of God53%30%12%5%304
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints22%46%21%11%334
Churches of Christ48%32%12%9%252
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)45%37%12%6%183
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)49%32%14%5%486
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)26%46%14%15%118
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod40%26%25%9%205
National Baptist Convention50%29%15%5%220
Nondenominational charismatic36%39%17%8%130
Nondenominational evangelical31%37%21%11%466
Nothing in particular (religion important)63%29%6%2%570
Nothing in particular (religion not important)59%28%8%6%299
Presbyterian Church (USA)42%38%15%6%100
Seventh-day Adventist33%41%16%10%114
Southern Baptist Convention44%36%15%5%1,088
United Methodist Church45%32%16%7%514
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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