Of course, it would be naive to assume that most people who give technically correct answers to such questions in polls have any real clue about the issues involved. They just answer the way they intuitively perceive to be high-status and ideologically correct; I’m sure most of them would easily change their opinion if these factors changed.
The primary reason people in the general public get worked up about evolution one way or another is ideological baiting and status concerns. The idea that it’s somehow important for the common folk to have a correct view of scientific theories that have nothing to do with their regular business strikes me as rather absurd.
Of course, it would be naive to assume that most people who give technically correct answers to such questions in polls have any real clue about the issues involved. They just answer the way they intuitively perceive to be high-status and ideologically correct; I’m sure most of them would easily change their opinion if these factors changed.
The primary reason people in the general public get worked up about evolution one way or another is ideological baiting and status concerns. The idea that it’s somehow important for the common folk to have a correct view of scientific theories that have nothing to do with their regular business strikes me as rather absurd.