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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 12/10/2009 : 08:33:42
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Do we really live in a country that is loaded to the plimsoll mark with superstitious boneheads? Evidently, we do.
Food for thought
Mon, 12/07/2009 - 9:41pm
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
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Hey Rat, do y'all have a little space for a jaded and disillusioned skeptic up there in Canada; maybe somewhere in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland? I've always liked the Bay of Fundy, perhaps because there are so few of them around there.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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TG
Skeptic Friend
USA
121 Posts |
 Posted - 12/10/2009 : 09:56:30 [Permalink]
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As disconcerting as most of this is, I actually find it surprising that 45% of Americans apparently don't believe in angels (or say they don't know if they exist). Given that roughly 85% of Americans claim to be religious, and the majority are Christian, the fact that so few believe in angels is actually encouraging. Geez, they're in the Bible.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2009 : 10:46:34 [Permalink]
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| I forget which podcast I was listening to this morning, but they were talking about the percentage of people that polls said "believed" in evolution and that the percentage of people who accept a naturalistic evolution is much lower than the total number of people who "believe" in some kind of evolution, including the different varieties of "theistic evolution." |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2009 : 11:24:22 [Permalink]
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UFO's.....I believe in UFO's....see them once in a while.
Wait did you mean Alien craft? I've Never seen one of those. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2009 : 12:19:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Hey Rat, do y'all have a little space for a jaded and disillusioned skeptic up there in Canada; maybe somewhere in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland? I've always liked the Bay of Fundy, perhaps because there are so few of them around there.
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We're sort of growing here. There's the group I'm chair of, the Association for Science and Reason (formerly Skeptics Canada), CFI has opened an office in Toronto, there are skeptics groups in most major cities, and we have a recent on-line group started called Skeptic North. If you head to the east coast you'll be a little out of it. While Canadians aren't as fundamentalist as some Americans, and definitely less shrill about it, it's more because we're rather unassuming, with a 'live and let live' attitude. But down east around Fundy most people are religious, in fact I've heard that Digby, right on the bay, has the highest concentration of churches anywhere. Despite that there is just about zero chance that you would be ostracized in the community for being an atheist. Nobody would really care. |
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You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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This is just sad....
