How many Americans hold a literal interpretation of the Bible? [View all]

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From the article:

The percentage of U.S. adults who believe that God created humans in their present form at some time within the last 10,000 years or so -- the strict creationist view -- has reached a new low. Thirty-eight percent of U.S. adults now accept creationism,
while 57% believe in some form of evolution -- either God-guided or not -- saying man developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.

To read more:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-humans-new-low.aspx

So, if one is to accept these numbers, slightly more than 1/3 of Americans are strict creationists. Or literalists.

And in England, the number of strict creationists is even lower.

After carrying out detailed face-to-face interviews with over a hundred Christians and Muslims, Unsworth designed her own survey. Of 2,116 people in Britain, she found that only 3% reject the idea that plants and animals have evolved from earlier life forms, whilst 6.8% reject the idea that humans have evolved from non-human life forms. Only 4% would qualify as young earth creationists.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2015/01/27/new-survey-finds-creationism-in-britain-has-been-overstated/#11e1b7af2685

So the idea that Christians generally accept a literal reading of the Bible is simply not supported by actual evidence.