Maybe third time’s the charm with posting. If I’m doing this right, limiting the sample to non-Hispanic whites — RACE(1), HISPANIC(1), yields slightly more support for evolution among Protestants, but not much more: 63.3% reject, and only 36.7% accept. How did you arrive at the 65% figure?

The “Book of fables” values make no sense in conjunction with the “Word of God” and “Inspired” values.

“Word of God” + “Inspired” > 100% for liberals. I assume that’s a subtle commentary on liberals’ putative inability to make up their minds

(yes, I’m of those contemptible left-by-american-standards types)

The left loves to denounce the right for being anti-evolution, all the while clinging onto blank slatism like a child holds onto a teddy bear at night.

This needs a bit of clarification, surely. If you mean to include all disciplines, I’m sure you can find quite a few college professors who don’t believe in evolution. But if you’re restricting it to the relevant fields it seems highly improbable that a majority are Lamarckians. Though in general terms the comparison is fairly sound, I think.

What I think we’ve seen with evolution is it’s gone from being something rejected by fundamentalists due to exclusively religious concerns to a signifier of being part of a political/ideological “tribe.” Of course, this isn’t universal, as the two exceptions you noted show. Still, it doesn’t disprove the idea, as black Protestants or conservative Catholics don’t really socialize with their supposed brethren as much as they do they do within their own circle.

I’m always surprised the “pro-evolution” movement doesn’t engage with African Americans more. My experience is although many are skeptics of evolution, it’s not as reflexive as among white evangelicals, more of a generally-held sentiment they never bothered to consider. If we had a black Richard Dawkins or two, I think it would make a big difference (please, no one cite statistics here on how unlikely this is – you don’t need to be on the extreme right end of the bell curve to be a popular science writer/pundit). I can only conclude the reason why it isn’t engaged more heavily is it’s frankly the opinions of black people on evolution are not seen as very important in the United States. Alternately, maybe the secular, white liberals like using evolution as a cudgel against their political enemies, but see no reason to use it to attack their “friends.”

In this Catholics are more like college professors. All professors believe in evolution, but most are lamarckians not darwinians.