Some interesting quotes from a liberal editorial at http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/nyt.kristof/index.html
Americans are three times as likely to believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus (83 percent) as in evolution (28 percent).
The unproved THEORY of evolution is taught in our schools, why?
Americans believe, 58 percent to 40 percent, that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral. In France, only 13 percent agree with the U.S. view.
America is so pious that not only do 91 percent of Christians say they believe in the Virgin Birth, but so do an astonishing 47 percent of U.S. non-Christians.
The source of that data is a Harris Poll from Aug. 12, 1998, with a sample of 1,011 adults. That survey found that 94 percent of adults believe in God, 86 percent believe in miracles, 89 percent believe in Heaven, and 73 percent believe in the Devil and in Hell.