Relationships between degree/area of academic formation and religious and Darwinian views are controversial. This study aimed to compare the religious beliefs and acceptance of Darwinian evolution between two contrasting South American scientific communities (Chile and Colombia), accounting for different degrees and areas of academic formation. In 2018, 115 last year bachelor students (surveyed as freshmen in 2014 for a previous study) from Chile, and 283 first/last year bachelor students, graduate students, and professors from Colombia, all belonging to biology, chemistry, or physics, were surveyed. Chilean students/faculty were significantly more agnostic/atheist, more accepting of Darwinian evolution, and less creationist than their Colombian counterparts. Academic degree and area differently affected these views in both countries, as only in Chile there was a clear tendency among biologists and physicists with higher degrees to hold less religious and creationist views. Marked differences between the history, socioeconomic contexts, and especially in high school and university curricula of both countries might explain these results.

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学术程度和纪律对智利和哥伦比亚的宗教和进化观点的影响

学术形成的程度/领域与宗教和达尔文主义观点之间的关系是有争议的。这项研究的目的是比较两个相对的南美科学界（智利和哥伦比亚）对达尔文进化论的宗教信仰和接受程度，这说明了不同程度和学术领域。在2018年，来自智利的115名去年的学士学位学生（在2014年被作为新生进行了以前的研究）和283名来自哥伦比亚的一年级/去年的学士学位学生，研究生和教授均属于生物学，化学或物理学调查。智利的学生/教职员工比哥伦比亚同修明显更不可知论/无神论者，对达尔文进化论的接受程度更高，而创造论主义者则更少。两国的学历和领域对这些观点的影响不同，仅在智利，具有较高学历的生物学家和物理学家就有明显的倾向，即持有较少的宗教和神创论观点。历史，社会经济背景之间的明显差异，尤其是两国高中和大学课程之间的差异，可能解释了这些结果。