Less than 1% of the 464 biology and biological anthropology faculty members who responded to a recent survey [1] approved of the following proposition:
“Modern evolutionary biology is mostly wrong. Life arose through multiple creation events by an intelligent designer, although evolution by natural selection played a limited role.”
The biologists included those affiliated with “all 35 public universities plus the 15 largest private institutions in Texas.” Most of the 1,019 biologists didn’t respond at all, clouding the results, it might seem. On the other hand, the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, which conducted the study [2] was thrilled with the turnout:
This represents better than a 45% response rate – almost unheard of for the remote return of a lengthy questionnaire of this type. The diversity of the response was also surprisingly robust, with respondents participating from 49 different institutions.
The question, of course, is why any biologist would approve. For more on the problems faced by Texas science teachers, see this same article for several helpful links, or see here, for a DI post on the topic. [3]
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