---
"title": "Evangelicals and Evolution"
"description": "That's the percentage of white evangelical Protestants that rejects the notion that humans and other living things have evolved over time, espousing instead a view that life has existed in its present form since the beginning of time."
"date": "2006-11-08"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2006/11/08/evangelicals-and-evolution/"
---

# Evangelicals and Evolution

Roughly two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants reject the notion that humans and other living things have evolved over time, espousing instead a view that life has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. Just 28% of evangelicals believe in evolution, and only 6% think evolution occurred through natural selection. This puts evangelicals at odds with seculars and most other religious groups. Majorities of white Catholics (59%), white mainline Protestants (62%) and seculars (83%) say they believe in evolution. [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/docs/index.php?DocID=153)