[spunkets]

The claims you're making don't match Gallop's results. Your claims regarding that Gallop table are that 45% of all Amercans believe in the creationist view. Those claims are not supported by the evidence, because their own results indicate that only 25% of Amercans don't believe in evolution.

Also note that the group "Naturalist Evolution", from the table you've presented includes Christians.

[goodusername]

Thanks for the link. I had seen that before but forgot about it.

It’s interesting that of those that don’t believe in evolution, barely 1/4 could identify Darwin with evolution. (While most of those who do believe in evolution could identify Darwin).

Creationists often like to cite the number of people who don’t believe in evolution (by whatever poll) as evidence that the evidence for evolution is lacking. But it’s obviously going to be difficult to judge the evidence for a theory when one doesn’t know anything about it (such as people who’ve never heard of Darwin). So the problem is lack of knowledge.

Here’s a poll showing only about half the populace knows that the earth goes around the sun each year:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/pdf/at07.pdf
(page 6)
Is that for lack of evidence? Or lack of knowledge?

[GodGunsGuts]

To you have a Gallop poll link to that graphic you posted???

Here are the results from Gallop polls going all the way back from 1982 to 2008:

And here's the link to the same:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/Evolution-Creationism-Intelligent-Design.aspx