TABLE 5.

Student perceptions of the definition of evolution^a

	Nonreligious students	Highly religious students
	n = 719% (n)	n = 360% (n)
Agnostic evolution	24.3 (175)	44.2 (159)
Atheistic evolution	72.2 (519)	34.7 (125)
Deistic evolution	1.0 (7)	3.1 (11)
Theistic evolution	1.0 (7)	8.6 (31)
Interventionist evolution	0.0 (0)	1.1 (4)
Human creationism	0.3 (2)	0.8 (3)
Creationism with some evolution	0.8 (6)	3.9 (14)
Old Earth creationism	0.0 (0)	0.8 (3)
Young Earth creationism	0.4 (3)	2.8 (1)

^aHighly religious students are students who, on average, more than “agreed” with survey items measuring religiosity, and nonreligious students are students who on average “disagreed.”