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Science and world view
In 2007 the discovery that only two-thirds of people in Finland accepted the theory of evolution stirred a public debate. Since then, public support for evolution has risen steadily and now reached 76 per cent. But the opposite has happened with views of the seriousness of climate change. The latest results show that only just over two- thirds of respondents think climate change is a serious threat.
The number of respondents agreeing that advances in science and technology are changing people’s life and way of life too quickly was much higher than in the previous survey. This, too, probably reflects the un- certainty of the times.
