mobilis in mobili

Wonder what other countries think about evolution? For the curious, the US is just above Turkey in percent respondents beleiving evolution was true (blue) false (red) or unsure (orange).

from Miller et al. Public Acceptance of Evolution Science 11 August 2006, pp 765-766

And, an interesting article which essentially presents evidence that the majority of 42 undergraduates at Harvard surveyed by Andrew Shtulman revealed that they in fact misunderstood evolution… though he comments this has little bearing on the leanings of these subjects toward ID or evolution!

From Shtulman (2006):

Devout atheists like Dawkins (1987)
speculate that disbelief in evolution stems from a misunderstanding of
Darwin’s theory, for anyone who grasps the explanatory power of natural
selection cannot help but affirm its validity. However, studies that
have measured both participants’ belief in natural selection and
participants’ understanding of natural selection (e.g., Demastes et al., 1995, Lawson and Worsnop, 1992 and Sinatra et al., 2003)
have found no significant correlation between the two. Consistent with
these studies, participants in the present study were no more likely to
endorse the statement “natural selection is the best explanation for
how a species adapts to its environment” if they understood natural
selection than if they did not.

For full reference, see: Shtulman, A. (2006). Qualitative differences between naïve and scientific theories of evolution. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 170-194.