Things like this make me proud!
According to the chart at that link, 58% of Canadians believe that humankind evolved through the unguided process called natural selection (compared to 16% of Americans), and another 19% of Canadians believe in Evolution but give God some credit for it (compared to 38% of Americans). So that means a total of 77%, or just over three quarters, of my countryfolk understand that Evolution is real, with more than half of the country needing to find no divine intervention in the process. It's still a little saddening to see that 14% of Canadians (compared to 40% of Americans) actually distrust or are simply ignorant of all of the mountains of scientific evidence that disprove the Biblical claim that the Earth is only 10,000 years old, though!
As I continue to burn through Richard Dawkins' most recent (and amazing!) book I can at least take some solace in the fact that here, in the Great White North, a strong majority of us have the necessary perspective to appreciate what Mr Dawkins calls, quite appropriately, The Greatest Show on Earth.
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