That very large majorities of the American public believe in God, miracles, the survival of the soul after death, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin birth will come as no great surprise. What may be more surprising is that substantial minorities believe in ghosts, UFOs, witches, astrology, and the belief that they themselves were once other people. Overall, more people believe in the devil, hell and angels than believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll®, a new nationwide survey of 2,126 U.S. adults surveyed online between November 10 and 17, 2008 by Harris Interactive®.
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December 23, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Believing in all sorts of weird stuff and believing in evolution are, of course, not mutually exclusive…
December 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Any political program that relies on the majority being capable of or interested in critical thinking or scientific literacy is blind to facts such as this.
December 26, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Can’t say I’m surprised.