By: EMJ
I agree. The style of education is unlikely to be a significant factor. That’s really strange about Russia though. How far back do the numbers go on this? Lysenko hasn’t been dogma for quite awhile...
View ArticleBy: razib
that was from 1991. but similar results today: http://www.britishcouncil.org/darwinnow-survey-global.pdf
View ArticleBy: donshikin
I don’t agree that Lysenko can still influence minds in Russia. There were about 40 years of fruitful genetics research after him. I’m not sure whether randomly picked schoolboy can even remember who...
View ArticleBy: Alex Besogonov
EMJ: I’m Russian, so I have a bit of ‘inside’ knowledge here. Acceptance of evolution became too low most probably because Russia has reversed its stance from atheism as a ‘state religion’ to Christian...
View ArticleBy: Joshua Zelinsky
I’m continually puzzled by low levels of evolution acceptance in Islamic countries. There’s no creation story in the Koran in the same way that Christians and Jews have Genesis, so there’s not even a...
View ArticleBy: Mike Keesey
“Yet 80% of Hindu accept evolution as the best explanation for the origin of life.” Err, evolution doesn’t explain the origin of life — just its subsequent history.
View ArticleBy: razib
dude, in the previous sentence i made it clear that the question was about *human life*
View ArticleBy: omar
Joshua, The Quran does have an account of creation, but like everything else in the quran, its not a straightforward summary of what happened. If the Muslims relied ONLY on the quran, they would have...
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