Educational distribution among adults who say humans evolved due to natural processes by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who say humans evolved due to natural processes by educational group

% of adults who say humans evolved due to natural processes who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Buddhist20%30%28%23%189
Catholic43%25%20%12%2,152
Evangelical Protestant45%35%13%7%866
Hindu6%17%25%53%117
Historically Black Protestant60%27%9%5%302
Jewish14%19%31%36%534
Mainline Protestant29%26%25%20%1,866
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")30%32%23%15%5,110
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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