Posted on 05/21/2009 10:38:06 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
“What Americans Really Believe,” a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians.I don't suppose they are going to call Baylor University and the Gallop Organization bozos. But I don't want to prejudge.The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Will creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster someday be discovered by science?
The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.
Logically, this should have made sense even to athiests. People don't believe in Religion simply because they are brainwashed, it seems to be a natural inclination to look for greater purpose and meaning in life, and absent a religious meaning people will look for meaning elsewhere.
In fact, you can see that in the way the evolutionists here defend evolution -- it's not just a dispassionate discussion of facts, it's a jihad borne of emotional outbursts, such as calling people bozos and liars and ridiculing the messengers. It's exactly what we see when people who have personal beliefs feel they are being attacked.
translation: "Can us evos bury this obvious embarassment as soon as possible"?
However, here are your answers. "(1) We don't know, (2) We don't know, (3) We don't know, (4) seems to be, although at least a couple of scientists are now questioning that basic notion, (5) nuclear physics is a branch of science, not something you "believe in", so your question was ignorant.
I do this as a public service so that maybe you would get back to the topic of the thread rather than hijacking it for your own purposes.
“Why don’t you creationist bozos give your own seriously flawed theory the same critique that most real scientists give their own pet theories. Bounce it against the data and the facts.”
Bounce this;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255759/posts
Hey Jeff, I *want* the evos to keep talking about “Ida” the lemur, or “Grandma”, as I affectionately call her. I wouldn’t want to suppress a word of it! I’m grabbing my popcorn now. Bob
“This happens most often in physics, chemistry, and the biological sciences, least often in disciplines like evolutionary biology and cosmology. The difference is that in the former the subject matter is more likely than not to bite you in the ass if you’re making a mistake; in the latter, it will readily adopt and hold any pose you put it in.”
The former are sciences; the latter are guesswork and theory. Why they are referred to as “disciplines” escapes me, because it appears as though very little discipline is very often shown.
All their other evidence has fallen like a house of cards - then they throw in this "Piltdown lemur" to try start the evo craze anew, and it's totally backfired on them! Obviously, the intense ruckus is afoot because they know, without this fossil, there's nothing else left to prop up their theory, and hence no way to justify their loose morals in their godless fantasy world.
We indeed live in a privileged time, to be witnessing what looks like the final collapse of Darwin's demonic philosophy! When the evo bandwagon is finally capsized, and science can again be pursued according to the will of our Creator, we might finally again see real scientific progress again, as opposed to the secular stagnation of the last century.
LOL! I have to admit, I still laugh every time I see that picture of the Darwin statue. It fits the evos so well! If only you could actually find one with milk being poored on it...
Is Ida waiting behind the curtain, Jess? lol Bob
GGG’s comment nowhere near represents the findings of this survey. All religion is superstition, by definition, meaning a belief in the supernatural. Atheism, by definition, eschews belief in the supernatural. But only an atheist can grasp that.
That's the hype. How long can you keep it up?
>>A recent study came out that shows that Evo-atheists are far more likely than Bible-believing Christians to believe in everything from astrology, to big foot, to little green men on Mars.<<
Did you know that 87.5% of all statistics and studies posted on internet boards are pulled out of the poster’s butt?
As I said....So predictable.
Until you're a puddle on the kitchen floor.
But only an atheist can grasp that.
An atheist belongs over at the DU. Where he can grasp plenty of bullshit.
Is this your announcement that only Christians are permitted on Free Republic? Has this been cleared with Jim?
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