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News and Views: Blacks Less Likely to Accept Charles Darwin's Dethronement of Mankind

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From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Date: 19981031
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News and Views: Blacks Less Likely to Accept Charles Darwin's; Dethronement of Mankind

According to a recent article in the journal Public Perspective(*) authored by public opinion researcher George Bishop, only 10 percent of Americans believe Charles Darwin's thesis that man evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.

The vast majority of Americans of all races believe either that God created man pretty much in his present form within the last 10,000 years or that man may have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but in any case God guided ...

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