What blew my mind was realizing that the amount of energy people put into arguments about "belief in evolution" is far more than the amount of energy put into actual research. (Similar for "belief in creationism" vs actually studying the Bible.) It's apparently very important for everyone to have a strong opinion on a topic that doesn't really matter that much if you're not doing medical or biological research.

Conversely almost half of people in the US believe in Evolution.

ie. You can make statistics say almost anything you want.

It depends how you define "don't believe". They might say they don't believe in evolution, but that doesn't mean they act in ways that are logically congruent with evolution being false.