weiselwillstealthisnametoo Wrote:
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> Ding an sich Wrote:
> \
> > "Belief in a literal interpretation of a Bible
> > declines as educational attainment increases.
> > Forty-six percent of Americans with a high
> school
> > education or less take the Bible literally,
> > compared with no more than 22% of Americans
> with
> > at least some college education. The majority
> of
> > Americans with at least some college education
> > believe the Bible to be the inspired word of
> > God."
> >
> > Now what?
> > Are they also misinterpretting the data?
>
> They arent being honest about it then. You can
> say less people believe its 100 percent true but
> people who believe its the inspired word are still
> religious. 78 percent of people with some
> college, and 79 percent of people with a 4 year
> degree either believe its true or that its the
> inspired word of god. You could say that theyre
> less likely to believe the bible is 100 percent
> fact, but to say they arent religious is
> misleading. If your talking about people going
> from religious to not religious at all you have to
> look at the people who think its a book of lies
> which has a 6 percent change.
>
> Again nothing else is being controlled for which a
> real scientific position would require.
Like I said, I mispoke when I said 'religious'. The survey was in regards to belief in the legitimacy of the Bible as 'God's word'.
But I've only displayed and quoted part of the findings. Maybe you'd prefer to look over the entirety of the survey results.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148427/Say-Bible-Literally.aspx
> > More quotes from the survey:
> >
> > "Three in 10 Americans interpret the Bible
> > literally, saying it is the actual word of God.
> > That is similar to what Gallup has measured
> over
> > the last two decades, but down from the 1970s
> and
> > 1980s. A 49% plurality of Americans say the
> Bible
> > is the inspired word of God but that it should
> not
> > be taken literally, consistently the most
> common
> > view in Gallup's nearly 40-year history of this
> > question. Another 17% consider the Bible an
> > ancient book of stories recorded by man."
> >
> > "These results are based on a May 5-8 Gallup
> poll.
> > The high point in the percentage of Americans
> > favoring a literal interpretation of the Bible
> was
> > 40%, recorded in 1980 and 1984. The low point
> was
> > 27% in 2001."
> >
> >
> > My guess is you're just a conservative that is
> mad
> > that the general conservative demographic is
> not
> > of a higher caliber. I don't see why else you
> > would argue against the obvious.
> >
> > I mean, come on - science v. religion. You
> really
> > think someone intelligent and well educated is
> > just as likely to pick religion over science as
> > someone that dropped out of high school?
>
> Youre just a liberal
Nope.
> whose distorting facts and making correlations
> that just flat out dont exist.
Wrong again.