Educational distribution among adults who say humans evolved due to God's design by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say humans evolved due to God's design by educational group

% of adults who say humans evolved due to God's design who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA55%33%6%6%136
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints25%36%31%8%185
Churches of Christ45%40%9%5%132
Episcopal Church18%34%22%26%157
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)24%34%24%17%252
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)47%40%9%4%200
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod32%42%15%10%142
National Baptist Convention49%28%11%11%142
Nondenominational evangelical25%36%25%13%154
Nothing in particular (religion important)53%33%10%4%515
Nothing in particular (religion not important)43%41%9%7%315
Presbyterian Church (USA)23%18%32%26%143
Southern Baptist Convention42%38%12%8%432
United Methodist Church26%33%26%15%556
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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