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mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

A November 2005 poll by Harris Interactive found that one American in five believes he or she has been reincarnated; 40 percent believe in ghosts; 68 percent believe in angels.

It's over. The party's over.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

I'm afraid of the world. I'm afraid I can't help it.

Sparkles*_*

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

I've seen those stats before. Marvelled at them. Marvelled more at their contradictory nature. The average American will believe absolutely anything--recent elections results seem to verify this.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Here are some scarier ones that are more unique to the US:

64 per cent of people questioned for a recent poll said they were open to the idea of teaching creationism in addition to evolution in schools, while 38 per cent favoured replacing evolution with creationism.
40 per cent of Americans believe God will eventually intervene in human affairs and bring about an end to life on Earth, according to a survey carried out in 2002. Of those believers, almost half thought this would occur in their lifetime with a return of Jesus from heaven.
1 adult American in five believes that the Sun revolves around Earth, according to one study carried out last summer.
80 per cent of Americans surveyed by the CNN TV news network believe that their government is hiding evidence of the existence of space aliens.
70 per cent believe it likely that Saddam Hussein was involved personally in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1582970,00.html

But let's give them some credit:

"A recent poll shows that two-thirds of Americans think creationism should be taught alongside evolution. What's even funnier are the poll results the media choose to ignore. The same poll found that a majority of Americans favor government-guaranteed health insurance. And nearly 70 percent favor "more generous government assistance to the poor," according to the poll, conducted by PewResearchCenter."

http://www.rochester-citynews.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3868

Only 40 percent of Americans can name more than four of the Ten Commandments,
and a scant half can cite any of the four authors of the Gospels.

Twelve percent believe Joan of Arc was Noah�s wife.

Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that �God helps those who help themselves.�

http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html

mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

On the other hand, I'm somewhat afraid of Canadians, but for entirely practical reasons. Does that count?

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

I did my own poll and concluded that 89% of Dave's posters are afraid of sunlight. And hard work.

Sparkles*_*

The Man known as The Man · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:24 am Post subject:

zappalives · Joined: 15 May 2006 Location: Gyeongju

People can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forty percent of all people know that.

-Homer Simpson

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

hermes.trismegistus · Joined: 08 Sep 2005

Metempsychosis has a wide following among many highly educated professionals. Don't relegate it to the same probability as ghosts. Dr. Ian Stevenson's work has silenced a great many skeptics.

For a 'reader' on metempsychosis, see here.

I thought this thread may have been a tribute to Bowie. Confused

Stupdity isn't limited or unique to Americans.

Namaste.