Among Scientists, How Broad is Concensus?

Hello, IGIT, and welcome to EvC!I don't know if I can find it without asking an internet acquaintence who was involved, but a poll was taken among science faculty in Ohio universities a few years back, during the Discovery Institute's push to get "Intelligent Design" a foothold in their public education system. It came out way over 90% on the side of evolution, but I can't give you details of how the questions were posed. The poll did, as I remember it, include more fields than just the biological sciences.I'll google a while, and if that fails, I'll ask my cyberfriend.

Stand back, folks! My Google-fu is very strong today!!!http://www.ohioscience.org/press03.shtml has the results: You may already know of Project Steve - it's a semisatirical list of
now over 1000 scientists that support evolution - and they have to be named Steve. More detail at Project Steve: n > 1000 | National Center for Science EducationI' too, would like to see a survey like you propose, particularly if it were done among scientists in biological disciplines. I think it would show very plainly just how strongly evolutionary concepts are supported.

Look at DA's second link, IGIT (I hope you're still here....) and you'll see that "man evolved" correlates very strongly with general levels of education. Presumably, more education means you've read more, even if you never took a science class past those required to get out of high school.I, personally, had only two semesters of biology in my college career. But I took a LOT of chemistry, and some other "hard" science courses, on the way to a chemistry degree. When you do that, you can see for yourself that science actually does work - it gives accurate answers. That is why scientists come in at 95% or 93% supporting biological evolution - because science works.

And Dodwell was wrong. There wasn't any such impact, or flood, either.