Questioning evolution is neither science denial nor the preserve of creationists

New evidence suggests many who struggle to accept aspects of evolution still exhibit trust in science overall - and that even some atheists have their doubts

In a supposedly "post-truth" era, we need to be ever mindful of threats to scientific or evidence-based ways of thinking about the world. And one of the ongoing and continual threats to a scientific worldview is "science denial", the rejection of core accepted scientific paradigms like evolution " right?

Many see the rejection of evolutionary science as a marker of religiosity or hard-line conservativism. There is a widespread assumption that religious people will find it hard to reconcile evolutionary science, and by extension science as a whole, with their religious beliefs. However, our new research turns some of this thinking on its head.