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Table 1 Proportions of students in levels 1 and 4 who rejected the proposition that a long period of biological evolution has occurred

From: Evolution and Religion: Attitudes of Scottish Bioscience Students to the Teaching of Evolutionary Biology

Levels

Year

Total number sampled

Rejectors (%)

1

1987–2099a (mean + range)

2,854

7.3 (3.9–11.3)

2008–2009

388

7.6

2009–2010

532

5.6

4

2009–2011 High

255

0

2009–2011 Low

228

4.4

  1. aData from Downie and Barron (2000). Level 4 data presented separately for “high” and “low” evolution students: 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 combined