--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
I very strongly disagree with LittleDan's claim
that
the U.S. is
"backwards". But we shouldn't spend too much time
on this, as we're
getting pretty far afield from discussing textbooks.
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Seriously, I haven't heard of anyone other
than
radical US
protestant sects supporting creationism.
I read in Wikipedia that a poll conducted by the UN
revealed that "18%
of Europeans polled believed that man was created
divinely by God
(although this does not necessarily exclude
evolution of the rest of
nature)." On a talk page, someone claimed that the
same survey found
that 33% of people in Poland believe the same thing.
(I've been
unable to find the survey online, so I can't
confirm.)
wahooo, in which page is that ???
well, polish, italian and irish people could fit in
that numbers perhaps. I am not even sure of that.
I have no poll at hand (because we just don't even
think to talk about the matter :-)), but I doubt
France is more than a couple %. Even in the definitly
catholic school my kids go to, children are taught
evolution in biology classes (with perhaps the hint a
higher spirit might have helped) :-)
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
http://sbc.yahoo.com