Cream Rises to the Top

The results of a multi-year, multi-country survey on people’s attitudes on the topic of evolution have been published in Science Magazine. while the actual article is behind a pay-per-view wall, the results are analysed over at The Panda’s Thumb. Top of the list of the 34 countries surveyed is Iceland, where over 80% of the (extrapolated) population accept the theory of evolution. Bottom of the list is Turkey, where 50% of the population declare the theory to be false.

 

The good old US is next to the bottom; nearly 40% of its population believe evolution to be false. Depressing, but I’m not surprised. I am somewhat surprised, however, that my adopted country of The Netherlands only manages to come in at 12th place. I would have thought that it would be higher than that.