Fig. 1

Percentage of New England faculty (Fac, black bars) versus college students (white bars) from public secular (Pub), private secular (Priv), and religious (Rel) institutions who consider one of the following explanations about the origin and development of life on Earth should be taught in science classes: A evolution and B equal time to evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Comparisons among groups: Chi-square = 27.072; df = 3; P ≤ 0.001; lowercase letters indicate sign test two-tail pair-wise comparisons, P ≤ 0.05. Fac, n = 241; Pub, n = 120; Priv, n = 266; and Rel, n = 173