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% of adults who seldom or never meditate 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 | 8% | 17% | 1% | 69% | 6% | 6,275 |
Evolved; due to God's design | 23% | 44% | 2% | 25% | 7% | 3,568 |
Evolved; don't know how | 14% | 21% | 3% | 40% | 22% | 587 |
Always existed in present form | 45% | 32% | 3% | 14% | 5% | 4,218 |
Don't know | 30% | 21% | 12% | 20% | 18% | 524 |
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