Do Many Scientists Question or Reject Evolution?

Creationists often claim that many scientists question or reject evolution. Is it true?
Well, “many” is an ambiguous term. Ten or twenty people, for instance, could be thought of as “many.”
There is no evidence that suggests that there are “many” creationist scientists out there. The claim is made based on the increasing number of seemingly qualified recruits to the creationist movement. Yet these new recruits are still really only a scattered few. Of those, the vast majority of them do not deal in fields where evolutionary expertise is required. Of those few left who do deal with evolutionary fields (such as genetics or geology) the track records are dubious, at best.
According to a 1997 Gallup poll, creationists comprise about 600,000 out of the approximately 13 million people in scientific professions. That’s well below 5%. (4.615%, to be precise.) But that includes professions like computer scientists, engineers, and the like—people with nothing to do with either life-science or earth-science. If one restricts the numbers to the 480,000 scientists who work in fields related to evolution (according to Newsweek magazine, June 29, 1987, p. 23), namely the aforementioned life and earth sciences, only about 700 are creationists. 700. That’s it! (A literal ‘700 Club?’) Percentage-wise that’s .14583%, or significantly less than TWO-TENTHS of a percent! And that’s just in hyper-religious America. If one looks at the percentage of creationists outside the U.S. (which is almost none), the number falls to well below one tenth of a percent!
Clearly, the “theory in crisis” is creationism.
The National Center for Science Education has something which is known as “Project Steve,” in which scientists named Steve sign on as supporters of evolution. The project is named after the late Steven Jay Gould, and some notable scientists, including Stephen Hawking, have signed on board. As of 11/7/2005, the list stands at 630 scientists, and is growing! When one considers that about only 1% of the world’s population is named Steve, and that this percentage applies to the scientific population as well, one realizes that SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than 1% of evolutionary scientists have signed on to a list which nearly equals (90%) the approximate TOTAL number of creationists (700, remember?) in the U.S.!

Eric