A survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life concluded that about 17% of people in the United States are either unaffiliated with a religion, or they refused to answer the survey. Of course, some news outfits spun this as "17% of Americans do not believe in God", or something like it. However, dig deeper in the tab labeled "Comparisons", and you can see that only 5% of people in the nation do not believe in God (or any other universal deity).
If you follow the logic placed forth by Richard Dawkins, then 95% of us are mentally unstable. See, Dawkins and other atheists are convinced that people who believe in someone (or something) bigger than themselves are crazy, complete nuts. He and his ilk are convinced that anything that science cannot explain is non-existent. Never mind that there are plenty of yet-to-be-explained mysteries. (I guess viruses did not exist until the 1800's, when Pasteur and others proved their existence.)
The really funny thing is that, when asked about the possibility of "intelligent design," Dawkins stated that aliens might have seeded planet Earth millions of years ago.
Wow.
2.23.2010
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