Finally, some good news!

I was listening to NPR while driving home from work and I heard a wonderful news. The new harris poll revealed that 42% of American adults aren't sure if there is a god. That's from thirty-some percent last year.Only 58% more to go All headline newsNBC article

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Place yourself on the map at http://www.frappr.com/evc

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The thread about this map can be found here.

Damn. That's a lot of murderers and rapists.

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Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus

But on the bright side, a lot of fornicators, too.

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Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin

From your first link:

93 percent of Christians who describe themselves as "Born Again" feel certain God exists.

Those are the scary ones.The NBC article (second link) explains the difference in polling method between this and the previous study. I sometimes say about these surveys, that they don't actually report what people believe. Rather, they report what people say when asked. The discussion in the NBC article seems to support this skepticism.

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Regime change in Washington - midterm elections, Nov 7

I can't decide if that is more scary than the 29% who believe that god controls events on Earth. Those people must either think that god intends that the horrific things we see happening all the time should happen, or that he's doing a piss poor job of it.

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Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin

Gosh, that is great news.

Who cares! As long as the number of fanatics don't increase, I can at least sleep at night.

Basic honesty should lead folk to that conclusion. An honest Christian must admit that they are not sure there is a GOD. We believe that there is, but no one "KNOWS" for sure.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

It matters somewhat.I tried to wedge my own thoughts between fantacism and conservatism (of both science and religion) but this appears to have deflated my own halo as if I had had one.John Grehan wrote on TAXACOM I think Grehan's response - to ignore me, is part of this change your poll seems to indicate. This is what I wrote to him and ICR as if evos and creos could be addressed on the same page. I have set up a second website to hopefully survive this apparent difference
http://www.axiompanbiog.com
and show that one can indeed feel as Grehan did that evolution is poorly taught while upbraiding both the expereince of evolutionists and creationists (and thus responding to the purely scientific aspects or apparent lack thereof (for both creation and panbiogeography) as noticed by (critic of panbiogeography ). Thus I think that if less belief rectifies what caused me to write by putting "a hole" in my sole then perhaps HIS world will be ours no matter what we think.Even though this particular episode transipred at the turn of the century I think in this election cycle it has finally played out its own difference, perhaps at an expense of less belief. I will not.Edited by Brad McFall, : more readable image