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It's that "God is dead" thing all over again
Nearly half of Americans are not sure God exists, according to a poll that also found divisions among the public on whether God is male or female or whether God has a human form and has control over events. The survey conducted by Harris Poll found that 42 percent of US adults are not "absolutely certain" there is a God compared to 34 percent who felt that way when asked the same question three years ago. ...The survey was conducted online between October 4 and 10 among 2,010 US adults.
First, let's cut through the journalistic bullshit:
42 per cent is pretty damn far from "half."
All this particular survey demonstrates is that 844 people out of a group of 2,010 people who use the Internet in the USA answered that they are "not sure that God exists." There's no telling whether those 844 answers came from 844 different people, or whether perhaps there were 4 people with time on their hands, each of whom responded to the survey 211 times. There's no way to know who was truthful, and who was just trying to be funny.
Now, if you want to get genuinely picky, how can you compare an online survey done three years ago with an online survey done last month, given the fact that millions more people, from a far greater demographic spectrum, use the internet than three years ago.
What if 300 of those 844 people were illegal immigrants?
These survey-takers are a real hoot. When they call or email me, and I bother to answer, I always lie.
The statisticians will ridicule the notion of religious faith, using numbers that themselves require quite a bit of blind-faith to be believed.
I just hope this was not paid for with government (i.e. MY) funds.