(February 17, 2024 at 7:59 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(February 17, 2024 at 7:36 am)neil Wrote: I've come across many individuals out there who reject evolution, and I'm referring to friends & co-workers, not random people off the street. In contrast, I've never come across anyone in person (friend, co-worker, acquaintance) who's a flat-earther.I think you are hanging out with the wrong people. To the best of my knowledge, I don't know anyone who rejects evolution.
Almost 1 out of every 5 (18%) of Americans reject evolution & think humans have always existed in our current form:
For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate | Pew Research Center
For the US adult population, that's close to 50 million people!
With my friends who are like that, I didn't find out until much later on that they're like that.
Most of the people I've known who are like that were co-workers. The first one I came across was when I was 18 years old & worked for an HVAC contractor; the owner branched out to the DC metro area where I live from Texas, and many of the employees there were also from Texas. The others I've come across were in healthcare organization IT department, which is where I work now.
