On the bright side, official Roman Catholic position supports evolution!

As far as I am aware and have been told, Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design remain largely a North American phenomenon and has significant less presence outside of NA. I could be wrong here but that was the impression I was given.

Also, the article regarding Canadians did point to the fact that the word of the poll can change the results. Angus Reid and Gallup asked similar questioned worded very differently. So there is ambiguity there!

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And as for 21: no one should be allowed to ask this without answering where god came from. And if the words "I don't know," "he always existed," etc. leave their lips ask why it's okay for God to spontaneously exist but not a Universe. It's one of the biggest cop out questions they have because the same burden of explanation doesn't seem to apply to their silly bull trout.
Classical theism would probably respond with the cosmological argument/prime mover argument. Then again, this just shows the strong influence that Classical Greek notions of divinity/Greek Philosophy played in the development of Abrahamic religions. Essentially, the whole prime mover/unmoved mover argument which can be traced all the way back to Aristotle though often popularized by Aquinas (I think). Or you could just go with the whole "God is beyond human understanding/knowledge". Depending on how it is formulated, the latter is far more respectable.

As for "science" is a theory, by definition. No, science is not a theory. Evolution is a theory. Science by definition means :knowledge" and historically refers to systematize knowledge/knowledge system. While in English it has largely lost this meaning and is synonymous with what is called "natural sciences", in French and German its "original" (derived from the Latin) meaning still holds.