Calling Scully and Mulder... :-)
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.
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
How many believe in a free lunch? That social security will take care of them?
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.
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.
I am shocked only 55% believe in angels. Truly. How sad.
Calling Scully and Mulder... :-)