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Table 11 Reasons for rejecting evolution: proportions (percentage) of level 4 students in low (n = 7) evolution programs who chose particular reasons: data for 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 combined

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

Reasons for rejecting evolution

Low

The increase of evidence and teaching of evolution during my university career is still not enough to convince me

29

The evidence that has been produced in support of biological evolution is not trustworthy

0

Despite the increase of teaching and evidence relating to biological evolution this would never be enough to overcome my beliefs

71

Other reasons (please state)

0

  1. No student in a high evolution program rejected evolution