This Stuff article is really interesting and begins as follows:

Kiwis are significantly more liberal than Americans on issues of religion and morality, but are still not convinced by the theory of evolution, new research shows.

The UMR Research study compared New Zealanders’ attitudes with those of Americans using findings from a US Gallup Poll conducted this year.

Just 26 per cent of Kiwi respondents said the theory of evolution was definitely true.

Around the same percentage believed in the theory of creationism, with 24 per cent agreeing that “God created human beings in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it”.

With our culture so saturated in Darwin-speak, this is a real surprise to me, especially in light of the fact that I was once heavily in that 26 percent.

To the following, all Christians should agree:

Hazel Chapman, who teaches evolution at Canterbury University, said … “I think we need to be paying more attention to teaching evolution well in schools.”

In fact, this has been one of the recurring complaints of the Intelligent Design community — that evolution is badly and deceptively taught in schools. For example: the fake Haeckel’s Embryos (YouTube video here) that are still (!!!) in the textbooks.

Recently I spoke to a small group and mentioned the uphill climb it will be from here on for Evolutionists to maintain their beloved theory. With the present understanding of the cell, DNA, proteins and so on, it is very hard to see how life could have come about by natural processes. But articles like this one now make it impossible. The science pendulum, I think, is starting to swing back heavily in favor of theism.

How unfortunate then that we have religious  — theistic — believers writing this sort of compromise:

Catholic Bishop Barry Jones said many Christians understood that God was the creator of all that exists, but “that evolution is very likely to be the correct way to understand the development of life”.