I found this data on the Gallup website:
At this rate, it will take almost 2000 years for americans to come to grips with the fact that they are on their own, developed from lower species, and are an accident of nature. That's a long damned time to accept a well-established scientific fact. Also, check out this data on pseudoscientific/mystic concepts in the US as a function of time (also from Gallup):
Belief in paranormal phenomena: 1990, 2001, and 2005
Percentages
| 1990 | 2001 | 2005 | |
| ESP, or extrasensory perception | 49 | 50 | 41 |
| Houses can be haunted | 29 | 42 | 37 |
| Ghosts or spirits of dead people can come back in certain places and situations | 25 | 38 | 32 |
| Telepathy, or communication between minds | 36 | 36 | 31 |
| Clairvoyance, or the power of the mind to know the past and predict the future | 26 | 32 | 26 |
| People can hear from or communicate mentally with someone who has died | 18 | 28 | 21 |
| Astrology, or the position of the stars and planets, can affect people's lives | 25 | 28 | 25 |
| Witches | 14 | 26 | 21 |
| Reincarnation, or the rebirth of the soul in a new body after death | 21 | 25 | 20 |
| Channeling (an entity takes control of a body) | 11 | 15 | 9 |
(source)
Why did many of these surge in the 90s?! Why do way more people believe in witches?! I am clearly out of touch, here.