Fig. 3

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 think one of the following statements fits best their position concerning evolution: A hearing about evolution makes me appreciate the factual explanation about the origin of life on Earth and its place in the universe; B hearing about evolution makes no difference to me because evolution and creationism are in harmony. Comparisons among groups: Chi-square = 31.615, df = 3, P ≤ 0.001; lowercase letters indicate sign test two-tail pair-wise comparisons, P ≤ 0.05. Fac, n = 236; Pub, n = 117; Priv, n = 259; and Rel, n = 176