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% of adults in the Silent generation who say the holy scripture is…
Views about human evolution | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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Evolved; due to natural processes | 15% | 18% | 1% | 58% | 8% | 1,639 |
Evolved; due to God's design | 28% | 41% | 4% | 16% | 11% | 1,369 |
Evolved; don't know how | 28% | 23% | 3% | 28% | 18% | 293 |
Always existed in present form | 57% | 25% | 5% | 9% | 4% | 2,218 |
Don't know | 45% | 20% | 12% | 12% | 11% | 470 |
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