For some Americans, Christianity has felt under siege lately.
From marriage licenses to school policies to bumper stickers, controversies surrounding Christian beliefs have seemed endless recently.
According to a national Gallup poll conducted in May, however, there's at least one Christian belief that really is on the decline, now reaching a “new low” among U.S. adults.
According to the poll, just 38 percent of adults now believe in what is known as the “strict creationist view,” which is the belief that “God created humans in their present form at some time within the last 10,000 years or so.”
It's the lowest that figure has reached since Gallup began asking the question 35 years ago.
As Gallup explains:
This is the first time since 1982 — when Gallup began asking this question using this wording — that belief in God's direct creation of man has not been the outright most-common response.
Overall, roughly three-quarters of Americans believe God was involved in man's creation — whether that be the creationist view based on the Bible or the view that God guided the evolutionary process, outlined by scientist Charles Darwin and others.
Since 1982, agreement with the “secular” viewpoint, meaning humans evolved from lower life forms without any divine intervention, has doubled.
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