This one's bound to heat up the comments sections - which is why I chose it. It's New Year's Eve, there's virtually no news worth writing about, so why not get everyone's dander up and post on the latest Pew Poll about American attitudes toward human evolution. About half of those who express a belief in human evolution take the view that evolution is "due to natural processes such as natural selection" (32% of the American public overall). But many Americans believe that God or a supreme being played a role in the process of evolution. Indeed, roughly a quarter of adults (24%) say that "a supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today." These beliefs differ strongly by religious group. White evangelical Protestants are particularly likely to believe that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time. Roughly two-thirds (64%) express this view, as do half of black...(Read Full Post)