Most mainline Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church, and many other religious faiths accept the teaching of evolution. As one objective measure, consider the group of tenured members of the biology departments in the nation's fifty top-rated universities. There are disputes about evolution as there are about almost any theory. It took over 200 years, but eventually the Catholic Church accepted the scientific evidence that the earth revolved around the sun. But it will happen.
Facts are stubborn things.
John Scopes, defendant in the celebrated 1925 trial concerning the teaching of evolution. Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has devoted considerable attention to the issue. His works are voluminous. The theory of evolution undermines the view that we as a a species have a special place in the universe. It suggests that the universe is chance-filled.