US: 9 in 10 believe in God
2007-04-01 13:47
Washington - More than nine out of 10 people in the United States believe in God, according to a poll published on Saturday.
The study published by Newsweek magazine found 91% of people said that they believed in God, with 87% claiming to follow a formal religion. Six percent professed not to believe in God.
Most respondents - 82% of those polled - called themselves Christians, and five percent said they followed a non-Christian religion such Judaism, Islam or Buddhism.
The poll showed 48% of respondents rejected the scientific theory of human evolution. Of respondents with a university degree, one in three said they accepted as fact the "creationist" view, the Biblical explanation that humans were created by God.
Sixty-two percent of the 1 004 adults polled said they would not vote for a political candidate who was an atheist.
- AFP