Well, I should do some studying here…nice talking to you NAA.

Wow, so Christianity is #1 huh. Followed by Muslims at roughly 20%…do Muslims agree with intelligent design I wonder?

Quite a lot of Christians do believe in evolution though…50/50 seems pretty plausible to me.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/wor…

Well, I know it’s hard to pin down stats on an issue like this, but I do know that there are a hell of a lot of religious people in this world. I wonder what other religions’ view on evolution is? I’m guessing they’re against it.

According to a PBS documentary on evolution, Australian Young Earth Creationists claimed that “five percent of the Australian population now believe that Earth is thousands, rather than billions, of years old.” The documentary further states that “Australia is a particular stronghold of the creationist movement.”[81] Taking these claims at face value, Young Earth Creationism is very much a minority position in developed countries.

A 2008 Canadian poll revealed that “58 percent accept evolution, while 22 percent think that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years.”[82]

In Europe, strict creationism is a less well-defined phenomenon, and regular polls are not available. However, evolution is taught as scientific fact in most schools. In countries with a Roman Catholic majority, papal acceptance of evolution as worthy of study has essentially ended debate on the matter for many people. In the United Kingdom the Emmanuel Schools Foundation (previously the Vardy Foundation), which runs three government-funded 13 to 19 schools in the north of England (out of several thousand in the country) and plans to open several more, teaches that creationism and evolution are equally valid “faith positions”. One exam board (OCR) also specifically mentions and deals with creationism in its biology syllabus.[83] However, this deals with it as a historical belief and addresses hostility towards evolution rather than promoting it as an alternative to naturalistic evolution. Mainstream scientific accounts are expressed as fact. In Italy, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wanted to retire evolution from schools in the middle level; after one week of massive protests, he reversed his opinion.[84]

[quote New American Atheist]We’re talking about world statistics.[/quote]

I pulled that off of Wikipedia. I know, it’s Wikipedia, but where are you getting your stats?

Isn’t that in the United States? I’m sure that figure doesn’t hold true to Canada and Europe and probably a lot of other countries around the world.

Ahhhh…I think evolution is pretty much the accepted theory around the world.

Two, ethical behavior can be taught without religion. If any one religion effectively promoted good behavior, then the majority of criminals and unethical people would not be of that religion. When you look at criminal statistics however, you find that every religion has a proportionate prison representation. However, when you examine the atheists portion of the population, it has a disproportionate portion of its population in prison.

For example, United States federal prisons take statistics about a person’s religion when they are incarcerated (for providing appropriate religious services such as a chaplain in the event of your death). While atheists make up an estimated 3% of the country’s non-prison population, they make up only 0.2% of the prison population.

Further support for the idea that societal health corresponds to organic atheism or secularism is data gathered by a comparison of statistics between countries. Statistics show that countries with higher levels of organic atheism also have higher levels of societal health, such as a lower homicide rate and lower teen pregnancy rates - to name two of many - than countries with high levels of theism. Even the United States is beaten in these areas.

So if we’re going to get serious about forming a more perfect union, establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing liberty to ourselves and our posterity, we need to investigate alternatives other than religion, which has had one hundred thousand years to make a positive mark and has left either a negative one in most instances, or a minimally positive mark in a rare few instances that could have easily been accomplished via other methods.

Absolutely true.

[quote Solid]Most intelligent post I’ve seen all day. Thank you for bringing a little reason.[/quote]

I agree.

You propose we rise against Darwinism? I don’t see how we can rise above the truth.

Not everyone fights like animals. No, that is for people who believe their religion is the right one. We’ll leave them to it.

The reason that we can not be one country with one religion is that everyone wants power. That’s the reason religion was INVENTED in the first place.

If people stopped wanting power and control, we’d all know the truth by now, and live in a better world.

Most intelligent post I’ve seen all day. Thank you for bringing a little reason.