NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by Hart & Teeter Research Companies

(Sept. 9-12, 1999) (2025 adults nationwide interviewed by telephone)

In teaching the origin of man, do you think that public schools should or should not teach creationism--that is, the biblical interpretation of the origin of man?

GALLUP/CNN/USA TODAY POLL

(Jun. 25-27, 1999) (1016 adults nationwide interviewed by telephone)

1. (I'm going to read a variety of proposals concerning religion and public schools. For each one, please tell me whether you would generally favor or oppose it.)... Teaching creationism instead of evolution in public schools

2. (I'm going to read a variety of proposals concerning religion and public schools. For each one, please tell me whether you would generally favor or oppose it.)... Teaching creation along with evolution in public schools

Time/CNN/Yankelovich Partners Poll

(Jun. 9-10, 1999) (1031 adult nationwide interviewed by telephone)

Do you think religion should be taught in schools, or kept out of school as it is now?

Gallup Organization/Phi Delta Kappa

(May 10-Jun. 8, 1994) (1326 adult nationwide interviewed by telephone)

The  public  schools  in  America  are  constitutionally prohibited from teaching  any  particular religion. Would you favor or oppose nondevotional instruction  about  various  world  religions in the public schools in your community?

Religion and Public Life/Center for Communication Dynamics/Williamsburg Charter Foundation

(Dec. 1-15, 1987) (1889 adult nationwide interviewed by phone)

Do you think public schools should only teach the Bible's account of the creation of life on earth, or should they only teach evolution, or should they teach both?

Notes: Study also includes responses from samples of teens, clergy, and leaders in business, academia, government and the press.

Roper Organization

(Feb. 12-27, 1982) ( 2000 adults nationwide interviewed in person)

(Asked of 'X' half of sample) (Here is a list of changes some people favor on the grounds that they are needed for the good of our society, but that others oppose on the grounds that they violate various Constitutional guarantees, such as freedom of the press, separation of church and state, the right of privacy, etc. (Card shown respondent) Would you read down that list, and for each one tell me whether it is a change that you favor or oppose?)...Requiring that public schools teach the creation theory if they also teach Darwin's theory of evolution.

(Asked of 'Y' half of sample) (Here is a list of changes some people favor, but that others oppose. (Card shown respondent) Would you read down that list, and for each one tell me whether it is a change that you favor or oppose?)...Requiring that public schools teach the creation theory if they also teach Darwin's theory of evolution.

NBC News/Associated Press

(Oct. 25-26, 1981) (1598 adults nationwide interviewed by telephone)

Do you think public schools should teach only the scientific theory of evolution, only the Biblical theory of creation, or should schools offer both theories?

Gallup/Catholic Digest

(Nov. 1965) (2783 adults nationwide interviewed in person)

Ben Gaffin and Associates

(Jun.- Jul., 1952) (2987 adult nationwide interviewed in person)

In some states, children in public schools are allowed to leave school early to attend classes in their own religion, taught by religious teachers of their own faith. Do you think this is a good idea, a bad idea, or don't you think it makes any difference? (If 'Good idea,' ask:) Would you be in favor or opposed to holding these religious classes in the public school building, or wouldn't it make any difference to you?