"Belief in God Cuts Two Ways, Study Finds"

[Father Heathen]

What I find most interesting is the quote that "more than 90 percent of people in the world agree that God or a smilar spiritual power exists or may exist." That is a very high number, given the relentless drumbeat of evolutionary propaganda.

Belief in god and belief in evolution are not mutually exclusive. Biblical literalism isn't the only theistic belief. In fact, America is the only developed, 1st world country where the majority doesn't believe in evolution.

 

[Me Myself]

you mean content right?

i disagree. i know plenty of christians and they are not content. they do seem rather controlling by prying into other peoples business.

I would agree with his point, but would have to add that there is a lot of people who said (to others and to themselves) that have found God and that is not the same that to have truly find him.

 

[Me Myself]

What I find most interesting is the quote that "more than 90 percent of people in the world agree that God or a smilar spiritual power exists or may exist." That is a very high number, given the relentless drumbeat of evolutionary propaganda.

What I find interesting is that for someone that joined the forum in 2009 you still cannot disconect belief in God with belief in christian bible literalism.

most Latin America is Roman Catholic, and in roman catholicism, Adam and Eve are considered a symbolic story, not the actual way it happened.

Some people like to actually acknowledge that humans and dinosaurs existed in entirely different and very widely set appart eras.

 

[Walkntune]

And perhaps some students thought that the word game was boring and a waste of their time and that's what reduce motivation

Or possibly they got distracted by a greater motivation which drew away attention from some boring word game.

 

[Me Myself]

They came to this conclusion by getting 353 students to play a word game. I am taking this with a very big grain of salt

wha... WHAT?!

Omg, is this... is..? sigh*

 

[Quiddity]

point taken...
but i would like to add that there is an underlying notion of...do no worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will take care of itself...consider the illies of the field type of thing.
i think of the huge credit problem we have in this country...people buying with the idea that god, or the universe for that matter, will provide for them...by the next billing cycle.

One can believe that and still do something about it in the same breath. But I do agree that it takes on a superstitous dimension to it and most non-theist [and theist for that matter] pretty much have a habit of lumping all theist into one.