Food for Thought (Percentage of Americans who believe in Angels, Evolution, AGW, Ghosts, UFO, etc.)

FP Passport ^ | 12/8/2009

[SeekAndFind]

Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55

Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39

Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36

Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34

Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34

[SeekAndFind]

Someone posted on the Uncommon Descent website :

It would be interesting to see what the “evolution” percentages would be if evolution were to be clearly defined in standard Darwinian terms:

1) Inanimate matter spontaneously self-generated and came to life as the first cell through chemical processes and chance (don’t give me any BS about how Darwinian theory is not ultimately premised on this underlying assumption and assertion), and

2) Once the first cell came into being it progressed to become everything in biology (including human beings and human minds) through a process of random errors, with the good errors being preserved and the bad errors being thrown out by the mechanism of natural selection.

[4rcane]

Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55 - NO
Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39 - YES
Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36 - NO
Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34 - NO
Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34 - DON’T KNOW

[SeekAndFind]

Percentage of Americans who are baseball fans: 36
Percentage of Americans who said the U.S. made the right decision to invade Iraq: 37
Percentage of Americans who who accept ESP: 48
Percentage of Americans who say they’ve heard God speak to them: 20
Percentage of Americans who say they have witnessed miraculous healings: 25
Percentage of Americans who believe the moon landings were faked: 6

[4rcane]

evolution definitely exist. You can see it clearly in virus or flies who have a much shorter lifespan. They evolve and survival of the fittest gene win

[Nateman]

How many believe in a free lunch? That social security will take care of them?

[freedomfiter2]

The fact that only surviving individuals can reproduce does not show evolution, they are still the same species they were before the others died.

[La Lydia]

I am sorry but this is asinine. Scientific theories are just that, theories. One neither believes nor disbelieves “in” them (as if they were the Holy Trinity or the Resurrection), rather, they are subject to testing, review, verification, replication and refinement. It is through this process that theories come to be considered valid, or are discredited. Global warming is a theory that has been disproved. Evolution is the best theory developed, so far, to explain certain phenomena that can be observed. But it is not a fact, and it is certainly not an article of faith. Whether you believe in the quantum field theory or the theory of relativity, those theories are rational attempts to describe certain aspects of reality. They are not matters of faith. You would think the Foreign Policy editors would know better.

[Quix]

Would like to see how the UFO questions were worded.

Used to be 80% believed that UFO’s were real craft.

The percentage that believed the craft were piloted by other-worldly critters was significantly lower.

[Cvengr]

However, I suspect the percentage of Americans who believed in Tiger Woods would cast the veracity of the survey in an unproductive light.

[shibumi]

Sikh, and ye shall find.

[Quix]

Hmmmm. LOL.

SIGH.

[Quix]

LOL.

TERRRRRIBYL

PUNNNNNNNNNNNY tonight.

Thx.

[shibumi]

Must be a singh from above.....

[Quix]

Oh, Dear me . . .

A holiday attack of the puns.

[murphE]

I am shocked only 55% believe in angels. Truly. How sad.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

I truly believe in angels and their assistance and presence in our daily lives.

ask me

[Global2010]

And the 20 percent who say God has spoken to them?

Well that tells me 80 percent arent listening.

[SeekAndFind]

I am shocked only 55% believe in angels. Truly. How sad.

The most recent survey I know of tells us that 90% of Americans believe in God.

Of these, over 80% call themselves "Christian". This leads to the next obvious question --- how many of these so-called Christians hold to Orthodox belief ? You cannot be an Orthodox Christian, Jew or Muslim without believing in angels.

Christmas for instance is about ANGELS announcing to shepherds, the birth of Jesus Christ. Seems like a huge number of these so-called "Christians" don't believe in this Christmas story.

Same would be true for those Jews who do not believe in angels. How the heck do you think PASSOVER came to existence ? It was God's deliverance of Israel from the ANGEL OF DEATH, who passed over the doorsteps of the Israelites when their doors were marked with the blood of a lamb.

Muhammad got his Koran through the message of an angel.

This tells me that America is not as "Christian" as we'd like to believe it is.

[Star Traveler]

Calling Scully and Mulder... :-)