Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Pew just released a new survey that checks to see how we all feel about various religious groups. Dated March 15, you can find their report here. Pro Tip: If, for any survey, you can’t find such details, or you can’t work out exactly how they ran the survey, then you should be extremely skeptical … Read more
Since the very beginning of Christianity the idea that we are in the last days has been a persistent belief. To illustrate this reality, Wikipedia has an ever growing and most probably incomplete list of dates that were predicted to be the final day. A more recent and rather famous example were the predictions made … Read more
Gallup recently released the results of a poll that asked people how they view the bible. The question they asked was this … Which of the following statements comes closest to describing your views about the Bible — the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word … Read more
The saga of a decline is US religion has a new data point. On June 17, 2022, Gallup released the results of a new poll. You can find the details on their website under the title “Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low“. This specific survey was rather focused, and asked … Read more
We need not guess, there is recent data available. On May 6, Pew published the details. Titled “America’s Abortion Quandary“, the byline under that title sums it up as follows … A majority of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, but many are open to restrictions; many opponents of legal … Read more
To answer the question in the title we can of course speculate, offer an opinion, or even try a straw poll or our own. None of that is necessary now because, on March 31, 2022, Pew published a poll that gives us a fascinating insight. The title gives the game away, it is “Americans skeptical … Read more