Parent of children under 18 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 parental status

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

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA31%69%191
Assemblies of God34%66%305
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints44%56%334
Churches of Christ32%68%252
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)21%79%184
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)29%71%486
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)33%67%118
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod22%78%206
National Baptist Convention18%82%219
Nondenominational charismatic32%68%130
Nondenominational evangelical38%62%463
Nothing in particular (religion important)35%65%570
Nothing in particular (religion not important)25%75%302
Seventh-day Adventist27%73%115
Southern Baptist Convention26%74%1,092
United Methodist Church25%75%516
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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