{"id":5799,"date":"2014-01-04T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T06:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T06:41:58","slug":"about-the-american-publics-views-on-human-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=5799","title":{"rendered":"About the American Public\u2019s Views on Human Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is scary. And it justifies my decision to home school. 1\/3 of all Americans deny evolution. I suppose it&#8217;s the pro-GMO crowd&#8230;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" style=\"border: none 0px white;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: none 0px white;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-1.png\" alt=\"evolution2013-1\" width=\"420\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-1.png 420w, http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-1-300x185.png 300w, http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-1-50x30.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none 0px white;\"  valign=\"top\">\nAccording to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2013\/12\/30\/publics-views-on-human-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center analysis<\/a>, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that \u201chumans and other living things have evolved over time,\u201d while a third (33%) reject the idea of evolution, saying that \u201chumans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: none 0px white;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-2.png\" alt=\"evolution2013-2\" width=\"415\" height=\"430\"  \/>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none 0px white;\"  valign=\"top\">The survey was conducted on landlines and cellphones in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, 1,983 adults, ages 18 and older. The margin of sampling error is +\/- 3.0 percentage points.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: none 0px white;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-5.png\" alt=\"evolution2013-5\" width=\"420\" height=\"486\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-5.png 420w, http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-5-259x300.png 259w, http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/evolution2013-5-43x50.png 43w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none 0px white;\"  valign=\"top\">\nAnd semi-unrelated&#8230; the Christians are now suing the San Diego school district to drop the yoga classes for the students (yoga is rooted in Hinduism I suppose)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is scary. And it justifies my decision to home school. 1\/3 of all Americans deny evolution. I suppose it&#8217;s the pro-GMO crowd&#8230; According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that \u201chumans and other living&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}