According to a 2007 Newsweek poll, 13% of self-described atheists or agnostics believe that "G-d created humans pretty much in the present form at one time within the last ten thousand years or so." Makes me wonder why they describe themselves as atheists or agnostics!
Young earth creationism is the most commonly held belief about the origin and development of life, held by 48% of all Americans. How nice!
Another 30% believe that humans developed over millions of years but that the process was guided by G-d.
Interestingly, among firm religious believers alone, denial of evolution correlates with high education.
I find it encouraging that in this modern day and age, after decades of evolution indoctrination which eliminates G-d from the picture, 78% of Americans believe G-d is very much in the picture.
I think that at a certain point in the last few decades, theologians and scientists have developed a truce where they don't see their own outlooks as the whole truth. Theologians acknowledge that changes in the human race occurred because Adam ha Rishon was covered with nails and people were capable of living many centuries. Scientists acknowledge that even if the entire universe came from a few random particles that accidentally collided, someone (G-d) had to create the random particles. They also acknowledge that there are holes in the theory of evolution enough to produce doubt as to whether or not it really occurred.
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