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Interestingly, more recent scientific developments in understanding through genetic analysis have led to the theory that all humans living today can trace their ancestry back to a single woman (the Mitochondrial Eve theory) and a single man (the Y Chromosome Adam theory) who came from Africa (the Out-Of-Africa Hypothesis). Although this doesn't line up with the Genesis account on a number of levels, it is closer to the Genesis than the previous scientific Multi-Region Hypothesis of humans independently evolving in different continents.
===Opinion Polls===
<center>13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:<BR>
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.<BR>Matthew 7:13–14.</center>
====Gallup polls 1982 to 2024 in USA<ref>https://news.gallup.com/poll/647594/majority-credits-god-humankind-not-creationism.aspx downloaded 2024-12-23.</ref>====
"Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings?
*Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process.
*Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process.
*God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."
Comment:-
*In 2024 Gallup recorded 34% accepting Theistic Evolution, 24% accepting Evolution Without God and 37% accepting Young-Earth Creationism.
*Gallup did not ask about old-earth creationism, so old-earth creationists may have voted for Theistic Evolution or Young-Earth Creationism.
*The proportion accepting Evolution Without God is rising rapidly, from 9% in 1982 to 24% in 2024.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! !!Theistic Evolution!!Evolution Without God!!Young-Earth Creationism!!Other / No opinion
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|2024||34%||24%||37%||5%
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|2019||33%||22%||40%||5%
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|2017||38%||19%||38%||5%
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|2014||31%||19%||42%||8%
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|2012||32%||15%||46%||7%
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|2010||38%||16%||40%||6%
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|2008||36%||14%||44%||5%
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|2007||38%||14%||43%||4%
|-
|2006||36%||13%||46%||5%
|-
|2004||38%||13%||45%||4%
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|2001||37%||12%||45%||5%
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|1999||40%||9%||47%||4%
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|1997||39%||10%||44%||7%
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|1993||35%||11%||47%||7%
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|1982||38%||9%||44%||9%
|}
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