"54% back the teaching of creationism."

The headline is taken from an article from today's issue of The Guardian written by Jessica Shepherd. It outlined a few harrowing but unsurprising facts(unsurprising that is, if you have been following headlines like this). The poll was taken from 10 countries and it encompassed just under 12,000 people(it was an Ipsos Mori survey). 973 were Britons and around 54% agreed with the statement, "Evolutionary theories should be taught in science lessons in schools together with other possible perspectives, such as intelligent design and creationism." Note that this figure is higher than the US figure, where 991 were surveyed and 51% agreed with the statement.
What is to be taken from this though? Is this an expected figure considering that the vast majority of the populous would still identify themselves with a particular faith should they be questioned on it, and a response leaning towards intelligent designed(ID) is to be expected?
It is becoming increasingly less embarrassing to submit openly that you are a history denier(Richard Dawkins' coined term for those who submit that they do not 'believe' in evolution). A peek at Dawkins' new book "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" gives us a wealth of evidence on why it should be embarrassing to claim to the contrary. As far as things becoming 'facts' in science go, evolution is as close to the line as something is likely to get.
I myself was debating with a fellow pupil from my school just last week along a similar tangent. I was referred to as an 'evolutionist' simply by citing that it is foolish to consider creationism a theory at all without opening up the entirity of The Bible to scientific scruntiny, including evidentially bogus events such as Noah's Ark, slavery of Jews in Egypt, and all 'miracles'. Creationism claims that the entire Universe came into existence after the domestication of the dog, and that we are all inbred(I've always been interested in the idea, that if human existence began with one man and one woman, where did the point arrive where skin colour started differing, I've never heard what the creationist approach is on this issue).

Regardless of what your 'opinion' is on the matter, it is still a wholly worrying statistic. Save the bogus religious theory for the church. Scientists, intellectuals and activists are not complaining that 'equal time' is not given to evolution in Sunday mass. Knowing how one sided I appear on the matter, I invite criticism of whatever facts I pointed out, and whatever ones I seemed to have omitted. Also, the picture has little relevance to the topic, but it is hilarious.