Graphic: Public Acceptance of Evolution in 34 Countries. US Leads Turkey Just Barely.

[BurtWorm]

Miller JD, Scott EC, Okamoto S (2006) Public acceptance of evolution. Science 313:765-766.

This is old news, but I post it in honor of Darwin's bicentennial and because PZ Myer referred to it in a post today:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/nckCn7NlkCo/alert_edward_tufte.php

[Taverner]

1. Dude - we're behind Poland - How the fuck did that happen?

Since the wall fell, Poland has gone uber-Fundie Catholic

[Jackpine Radical]

3. To the best of my knowledge, Catholicism is not necessarily hostile to

evolution. Remember that the early 20th-century paleontologist (Peking Man, etc.), Pierre Tielhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest.

[NYC Liberal]

5. Because the Catholic Church accepts that evolution is a fact

That'd probably be why.

[Taverner]

6. Ahhhh Gotchya

[anonymous171]

8. The Catholic Church accepts evolution.

It's condoms they have a problem with.

[pokerfan]

10. In 1992 they even apologized to Galileo

It's progress.

[ComtesseDeSpair]

2. Our country is such a fucking embarrassment.

Why did my grandparents ever leave Norway?????

[Greyhound]

12. Got tired of fish? n/t

[ogneopasno]

4. What an embarrassment. Where's Canada?

[nxylas]

7. North of the 49th parallel, where it's always been

Bdum-ching.

[ogneopasno]

9. Let's see, let's see...the "ignore" tag should be around here somehwere...

...ahhhh...there it is...*click.*

:P

[pokerfan]

11. 59% true, 22% false, 19% not sure

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/16178