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To: metmom
"Big difference between calling oneself *Christian* (because you're not Jewish, muslim, or somthing else and you go to church twice a year for the *biggies*-Christmas and Easter) and accepting Christ as their Savior."

When you become God and can see into their souls, I'll ask you for information about who really is and isn't a Christian. Until then, I'll go by what they say.

"It follows logically? That's not facts, that's deduction."

It's logical deduction from facts.

"44+39+10=93 Hmmmm. What happened to the other 7%? If the percentages are for the study sample, someone goofed."

Undecided, and irrelevant. 39% said they accepted evolution AND that God directed a good part of it. 10% accepted evolution and said God had no part. That's 4 to 1, or 80% of evolution acceptors who believe in a theistic God. Since a little over 80% of all people in the USA are theists, and the vast majority of these theists are Christian, it follows that that most people who accept evolution in the USA are also Christian.

Sorry if the math is too tough for you. Here's a refresher if you need help:

http://www.aaamath.com/kindergarten.html
723 posted on 04/28/2006 12:53:32 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman; Dimensio
"How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis

How to Lie with Statistics, a Book Review

Mark Twain is reputed to have said: "There are lies, damned lies and statistics.", which is a lie in and of itself, and is actually attributed to Disraeli in the front cover of the book How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff (Norton), is essential to any programmer survival kit, because misleading color graphics are everywhere. The author teaches you how to talk back to a statistic. This brief, humorous, and entertaining book "is a sort of primer in the ways to use statistics to deceive....the crooks already know these tricks. Honest men must learn them in self-defense." The author shows how to take a graph and make it say anything you want.

http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/stats.html

Statistics can mean anything anyone designs them to. They don't *prove* anything.

736 posted on 04/28/2006 1:36:13 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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