269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Acceptance of Evolution Breaks the 50 % Barrier
The acceptance of the theory of evolution broke the 50 % barrier in the united statesa so that must be a little encouraging. But their causal explanation, here's what they wrote, indicates that increasing enrolment in backloreent level programmes and exposure to college level science ces are responsible for the increased level of public acceptance. So you have had some effect, i think. I would like to think that, on the other hand, somebody did a did a study who was giving a course at university level on evolution, and he took a pull of the students before the course, and then he took another pull after the course,. The number of people who believed it had gone down after taking the
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