McGill University's Office for Science and Society reflected (December 4, 2025) on a recent poll about Canadian attitudes toward creationism and evolution — with the aid of NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch and former Executive Director Eugenie C. Scott.
The poll found that support for teaching creationism in Canada's public schools increased in the last year and a half, even while a substantial majority of Canadians agree that human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, as NCSE previously reported.
"Are Canadians pushing for religion to creep into the biology curriculum?" the article asked, answering, "Not necessarily. The value of this survey is debatable; what isn’t, however, is the profusion of evidence we have for what came to replace creationism: the theory of evolution."
Scott and Branch were cited as noting ambiguities in the question used in the poll that tend to vitiate the apparent increase in support for teaching creationism; Branch was also cited as noting that acceptance of human evolution is higher in Canada than in the United States.
While the apparent increase may be "a random blip in the data," the article concluded, "[i]t is something to keep an eye on, because creationism should absolutely not be advocated for in a science classroom."
