Napoleon Bonaparte, Marlon Brando, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Mark Twain and George Washington were Deists and did not believe in organized religion and may also have been atheists.
52% of GOP reject evolution; 36% reject creationism
More Americans today believe that human beings developed without any involvement of a higher power, according to a new poll.
Gallup reported that since 1982, the number of Americans believing that humans evolved over millions of years increased by seven percentage points.
The current figure - 16 percent - has trended upwards since 2000.
Since 1982, Americans who believe that humans evolved with God guiding the process haven't changed (38 percent), while Americans who believe God created humans in present form has decreased four points to 40 percent.
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