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Poll: Rank the following in order of highest to lowest: % of Americans who believe in UFOs, evolution, angels, ghosts, anthropogenic global warming

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Dec 9 '09, 08:05

anthropogenic climate change = caused/produced by human activity, as opposed to "global warming was going to happen anyway"

Responses:

Answers are: angels 55%, evolution 39%, human-caused global warming 36% ghosts and UFOs tied at 34% - Roger More Dec 9, 08:20 33
- I'm surprised less than 50% believe in evolution... -- nm - Guigue Dec 9, 08:31 21
  - I'm surprised it's as high as it is. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:38
  - Well, when 55% believe in unprovable angels, it's hard to show them something that is proven. - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:34 19
    - "Belief" is not about whether something can be proved. Faith plays a big role. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 08:35 18
      - The problem is that Faith in an unprovable God is in direct opposition of Evolution of man. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:39 17
        
        there are many ways of reconciling that. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:46
        
        I don't believe that. I have no problem reconciling my belief in God and evolution -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 08:45 5
        
        So do you believe in Adam and Eve (and such), and that God created "man" in the form we currently are? - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:50 4
        
        I don't believe in Adam and Eve as literal people, no. I take much of the origin stories in the bible to be metephorical (is that the right word)? - oblique Dec 9, 08:53 1
        
        Interesting, thanks. - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:55
        
        You are describing religious funamentalists, who believe the Bible word for word. Mos religious people are not fundametalist. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 08:51 1
        
        yes, the literalists are a small subset. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:52
        
        That's debatable -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 08:44
        
        It used to be, but now I think they claim that god created evolution. nm - Dignan Dec 9, 08:43 8
        
        Nothing new about that. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 08:44 7
        
        see: Teilhard de Chardin. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:48
        
        Is this part of accepted established religious dogma though? Or something that individuals accept so their belief and faith don't directly contradict? - musubi Dec 9, 08:47 5
        
        depends on the religion. The Catholic Church has no official dogma regarding evolution. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:47 4
        
        Seriously? Why not? nm - Dignan Dec 9, 08:48 3
        
        because they learned their lesson from past fiascos like Copernicus. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:50 2
        
        Isn't that the same as admitting that they're full of crap? - Dignan Dec 9, 08:53 1
        
        they're admitting they were wrong. that's a good thing. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:56
- well that gives me a little more hope. But I would have bet billions that Angels was the number 1 answer -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 08:26
- Wow, no one got it correct. Do people *want* to believe in angels, or do they actually think angels interact with them on a daily basis? -- nm - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:22 9
  - If we know people believe in God, is angels really a stretch? - con_carne Dec 9, 08:26 6
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    - This is my thought too - if you believe in God, it's no stretch to believe there are angels in Earth doing God's work -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 08:28 3
      - I would think (hope) that there are a lot of people that believe in "a god," but doesn't interact with humans on a daily basis. - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:43
      - You wouldn't even need to believe that, just that they exist. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 08:32
      - I was thinking more of how people view the afterlife, but I could be wrong. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 08:32
    - I wonder if there would have been a different percentage between "believe in God" and "believe in Angels," though I see your point. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:28
  - Like, more than one in two people? Really? nm - Dignan Dec 9, 08:25 1
    - they must watch Supernatural -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 08:26
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evolution, angels, ufo's, climate change, ghosts -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 08:12
evolution, UFOs, global warming, ghosts angels, -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 08:10 2
- I don't know about Roger's specific poll, but belief in evolution always comes out shockingly low in these polls. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:13 1
  - It's a compilation of several polls (put together by someone else) but the evolution one is the Gallup poll done for Darwin's birthday -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 08:18
UFOs, evolution, angels, global warming, ghosts -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 9, 08:10
angels, ghosts, UFOs, global warming, evolution -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 08:10
angels, ghosts, evolution, climate change, ufo's. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 9, 08:10
angels, UFOs, ghosts, global warning, evolution -- nm - TWuG Dec 9, 08:09
angels, evolution, ghosts, climate change, UFOs. -- nm - mafic Dec 9, 08:07
angels, ghosts, ufos, global warming, evolution. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 9, 08:07
ghosts, ufo's, angels, global warming, evolution -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 08:07 4
- also, is this actual ufo's or alien spacecraft? -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 08:08 2
  - It's not clear, but I'm guessing alien spacecraft -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 08:10 1
    - i figured, not that the majority realize there is a difference :) -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 08:12
- this. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 08:08
as sad as this is: Angels #1, Ghosts #2, Global Warming #3, Evolution #4, UFOs #5 -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 08:07
Angels, Ghosts, Evolution, UFOs and GW -- nm - Capstern Dec 9, 08:06

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