Read “Death Anxiety Shapes Views on Evolution,” posted March 30, 2011, by the online magazine Miller-McCune.com.

Read an Aug. 9, 2011, NPR story about the efforts of Evangelicals to reconcile religious doctrine with science.

Read a Feb. 13, 2012 column at RealClearScience.com by Ross Pomeroy about the places of creationism and evolution in public schools.

Read a March 30, 2012 story in Christianity Today about a symposium of evangelicals who endorse the evolutionary process as God’s means of creation.

Read a December 2007 analysis by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life of American attitudes on evolution and biblical creation. As the authors write, “public opinion polling over the last few decades has shown that between 40 percent and 50 percent of Americans consistently reject the very idea of natural evolution, largely on the grounds […]

Pollingreport.com has a section on science and nature that includes poll results dealing with the origin of human life.

Among those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party, 51 percent reject evolution, according to a September 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. Sixty-one percent of independents and 64 percent of Democrats accept evolution, the survey found.

Read a Gallup analysis of a poll question the organization has asked since 1982, with the most recent survey from December 2010. The data show relatively stable opinions–40 percent of Americans believe that “God created man in present form,” 38 percent believe that man developed with “God guiding the process,” and 16 percent believe that “God had […]

ReligiousTolerance.org summarizes what it says are the three main belief systems Americans tend to hold regarding the origin of our species. The site includes links to pages on what scientists and the general public (in the U.S. and elsewhere) have told pollsters about it through the years.