God, Bible, Evolution

Via Gene Expression, comes the following distillation of a 1991 study on religious views around the world. People were asked a variety of questions, but the following three are focused on:

God: I know God exists and I have no doubts about it.
Bible: The Bible is the actual word of God and it is to be taken literally, word for word.
Evolution: In your opinion, how true is this? ...Human beings developed from earlier species of animals.

Here are the results, in a cramped table:

Country, God, Bible, Evolution

USA, 62.8, 33.5, 35.4
N Ireland, 61.4, 32.7, 51.5
Philippines, 86.2, 53.7, 60.9
Ireland, 58.7, 24.9, 60.1
Poland, 66.3, 37.4, 35.4
Italy, 51.4, 27, 65.2
New Zealand, 29.3, 9.4, 66.3
Israel, 43, 26.7, 56.9
Norway, 20.1, 11.2, 65
Great Britain, 23.8, 7, 76.7
Netherlands, 24.7, 8.4, 58.6
W. Germany, 27.3, 12.5, 72.7
Russsia, 12.4, 9.9, 41.4
Slovenia, 21.9, 22.3, 60.7
Hungary, 30.1, 19.2, 62.8
E. Germany, 9.2, 7.5, 81.6

When you do correlations of these, you get the following:

Correlations
God:Evolution, -0.463
Bible:Evolution, -0.488
God:Bible, 0.93

This shows that beliefs in evolution don't closely correlate, worldwide, with beliefs in God or Biblical inerrancy. Read the discussion at GNXP for why.

What fascinates me are the numbers for belief in God and Biblical inerrancy in other Anglosphere and European nations. The gap between America (and other Catholic nations) and Protestant Europe are surprising, at least to me. I've long known that Europeans are much less "religious" in the American sense than we are, but... wow.