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Table 5 Proportion (percentage) by year of the whole level 1 class, split into evolution accepters and rejecters, stating a religious belief (sample numbers as in Tables 2 and 3)

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

Year

Whole class

Acceptors

Rejectors

Level 1

 1987–1999a

59

57

86

 2008–2009

43

47

100

 2009–2010

44

41

96

Level 4

 2009–2011

36

–

–

  1. aMean data from Downie and Barron (2000). Whole class data also shown for level 4 for 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 combined
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