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% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services 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 | 7% | 18% | 1% | 68% | 6% | 5,434 |
Evolved; due to God's design | 22% | 45% | 2% | 24% | 7% | 5,091 |
Evolved; don't know how | 12% | 24% | 2% | 40% | 21% | 755 |
Always existed in present form | 52% | 30% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 7,138 |
Don't know | 35% | 26% | 10% | 13% | 16% | 768 |
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