Racial and ethnic composition 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 race/ethnicity

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

Religious denominationWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
American Baptist Churches USA74%8%< 1%13%6%135
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints82%< 1%4%9%5%182
Churches of Christ64%19%1%11%6%132
Episcopal Church92%2%< 1%2%3%158
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)93%1%1%2%2%251
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)87%< 1%1%8%5%198
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod94%2%1%1%1%142
National Baptist Convention< 1%99%< 1%1%< 1%144
Nondenominational evangelical72%9%1%13%4%152
Nothing in particular (religion important)55%19%3%18%5%504
Nothing in particular (religion not important)63%12%6%16%5%309
Presbyterian Church (USA)87%4%3%5%1%143
Southern Baptist Convention82%9%< 1%4%5%430
United Methodist Church94%2%1%1%2%559
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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