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Did Humans Evolve? Not Us, Say Americans
New
York Times (Aug 15, 2006)
In surveys conducted in 2005, people in the United States and 32 European
countries were asked whether to respond “true,” “false” or “not sure” to
this statement: “Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier
species of animals.” The same question was posed to Japanese adults in
2001.
The United States had the second-highest percentage of adults who said the
statement was false and the second-lowest percentage who said the
statement was true,
researchers reported in the current issue of Science.
Only adults in Turkey expressed more doubts on evolution. In Iceland, 85
percent agreed with the statement.
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