Creationism and Ignorance

[John V]

But the mutations are essentially random (though truly random is hard to find).  It is the selection process which is not random.

Right, and the changes in populations over time relies on this non-random selection process.

Except for when the changes aren't random. Again, drift isn't random. Consider vitamin C synthesis, or rather the lack thereof in certain species, including us.

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Looking further into the numbers in OP regarding people who don't think there a scientific consensus:

- in the creationists, about 50% don't think there's consensus

- in the evolutionists, about 25% don't think there's a consensus.

So, there's significant ignorance (if that explanation is correct) among the evolution believers as well.

The concise definition of evolution given from qualified sources has been rejected by evolutionists here.

That concise definition would be agreed upon by most creationists anyway.

We can't come up with a replacement definition that's concise and accurate.

It's really not surprising that there's a discrepancy.

Pew is usually pretty good, but in this case I don't think they understood the issues well enough to ask the right questions.