Views about human evolution among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by views about human evolution
% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who say humans…
Religious denomination | Evolved; due to natural processes | Evolved; due to God's design | Evolved; don't know how | Always existed in present form | Don't know | Sample size |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 14% | 34% | 5% | 43% | 5% | 105 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 20% | 31% | 2% | 44% | 3% | 379 |
Assemblies of God | 4% | 20% | 3% | 69% | 4% | 421 |
Church of God in Christ | 10% | 25% | 7% | 54% | 4% | 154 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 7% | 29% | 1% | 56% | 7% | 561 |
Churches of Christ | 13% | 28% | 2% | 53% | 5% | 414 |
Episcopal Church | 31% | 40% | 7% | 18% | 5% | 279 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 13% | 42% | 4% | 36% | 4% | 456 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 10% | 26% | 1% | 59% | 4% | 722 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 8% | 21% | 3% | 64% | 3% | 181 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 11% | 34% | 2% | 49% | 3% | 377 |
National Baptist Convention | 14% | 30% | 4% | 46% | 5% | 429 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 3% | 22% | 1% | 71% | 3% | 173 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 2% | 22% | 1% | 71% | 4% | 629 |
Nondenominational fundamentalist | < 1% | 24% | < 1% | 74% | 2% | 100 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 24% | 30% | 5% | 38% | 4% | 1,145 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 35% | 30% | 6% | 22% | 7% | 525 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 22% | 35% | 3% | 35% | 5% | 294 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 16% | 31% | 3% | 44% | 6% | 119 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 5% | 17% | 1% | 69% | 8% | 149 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 9% | 23% | 2% | 61% | 5% | 1,663 |
United Church of Christ | 27% | 30% | 4% | 32% | 8% | 132 |
United Methodist Church | 14% | 35% | 3% | 41% | 6% | 1,165 |
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