The study by Newman University Birmingham and YouGov, which also sampled Canadians, sought to examine public perceptions and attitudes towards evolution.
If found that while there is a broad consensus of acceptance towards evolutionary science in both countries, non-religious people show similar trends regarding expressing doubts about evolutionary science.
Those who identified as religious or spiritual were also significantly more likely to find it easy rather difficult to accept evolutionary science in reference to their personal beliefs.
Only 9 per cent of UK respondents said "humans and other living things were created by God and have always existed in their current form". Meanwhile, 19 percent of UK atheists believe evolution cannot explain the existence of humanity.
According to The Times, the number of Brits believing in creation is down 50 per cent in the past eight years.
UK adults showed the highest levels of ease in accepting evolutionary science in reference to their personal beliefs, with 64 per cent saying they found it very easy, easy, or somewhat easy in comparison to 50 per cent in Canada.
The survey also found that 12 per cent of people in the UK believe that animals around today look exactly how God created them.
Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker, Director of the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum project, said: "What these surprising findings highlight for the first time is that concerns about evolutionary science aren't necessarily based solely on individuals' religious identity.
"It is not just that some religious people have questions about human evolution it is that some humans have questions about human evolution."
