Pew Survey on Belief in Evolution of Humans

Four years ago, majorities of Republicans, Democrats and Independents all expressed a belief that humans evolved. Today, a large plurality of Republicans (48%) claim that humans have always existed in their present form.  Only 39% of Republicans believe that humans evolved from other forms of life. Did Fox News succeed in making their viewers dumber? Tempting as that is to say, I suspect that not many people stopped believing in evolution in the last four years. But I think that a lot of people who are smart enough to know that evolution happened, no longer identify as Republicans.

But let's focus on the positive.  Sixty percent of Americans overall now believe in evolution.  Just a third, (33%) believe that humans have always existed in their present form.  We have a long way to go, but what has Darwin taught us if not to believe in the power of very slow, extremely gradual change over long periods of time?

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/