Parent of children under 18 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 parental status

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

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA28%72%136
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints44%56%184
Churches of Christ36%64%132
Episcopal Church16%84%158
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)24%76%253
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)27%73%200
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod22%78%143
National Baptist Convention40%60%143
Nondenominational evangelical37%63%155
Nothing in particular (religion important)35%65%516
Nothing in particular (religion not important)27%73%312
Presbyterian Church (USA)20%80%144
Southern Baptist Convention25%75%432
United Methodist Church26%74%560
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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