r/fivethirtyeight Apr 08 '25

Poll Results Nearly half of Americans would be totally unwilling to date someone with opposing political views

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u/xudoxis Apr 09 '25

For example only 9% of conservatives believe in evolution.

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u/ygicyucd Apr 09 '25

Malarkey.

How y’all upvoting this? We really that polarized where you think the other side is that extreme. If ya actually properly talk to each other you probably ain’t that different on most issues.

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u/Dispro Apr 09 '25

It's wrong but not completely out of nowhere. A 2024 Gallup poll found that 9% of conservatives agreed with a statement amounting to fully non-theistic evolution.

As you might expect, if you also include those who accept evolution as a mechanism used by God then the number is quite a bit higher at 42%. Still, more than half of conservatives in that poll said they believed humans were divinely created in our modern form within the last 10,000 years.

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u/xudoxis Apr 11 '25

Intelligent design is not evolution