[ninty]

Yeah, this topic again.

Anyway, I was looking on globeandmail.com which is a national newspaper in Canada and I took a look at a poll located here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... VoteResult

Keep in mind that this paper is quite "liberal" so those who read it are already biased. I don't read this paper because I don't like it, but I like to read their polls. The poll indicated 51% said they didn't believe in God. This is of course not scientific in any way, since its just an internet poll, but I do think its got some bearing. Take it for what its worth.

I then remembered that something like 91% of Americans believe in some sort of God. Now that seems like a HUGE discrepancy to me. I mean, we're not all that different from each other weather anybody likes it or not, or so we think.

Take a look at these links:

http://www.pollingreport.com/religion.htm

That first question baffles me. 60% think the story of Noah is literal? 60% believe that Noah went out and gathered 2 of every animal and got on a ship and survived a flood?

This is the problem with religion. I have no problems with the stories. These are great for teaching good vs. bad and those sorts of things, but the message needs to get out that these are stories, and did not actually happen. The story of Adam and Eve is just an explanation for the beginning of man, not actually what happened necessarily. I think that this mentality sort of leads to a blind eye to everything else. Dismissing everything else because what the bible says is literal and the only way things can be done.

And 42% said that the bible is actually the word of God. I pretty sure that God himself didn't write the bible, but men "interpreting" God's will did.

If nothing else, I find it a really interesting read.

As for the Evolution theory:

http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/curre ... l-poll.htm

Here is also another good read:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ ... RTM0011021


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