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New The answers in polls depend on how the questions are asked.
[link|http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_comp.htm|Religious Tolerance]:

Two international surveys were conducted during 1991 and 1993 by the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). This is currently located at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.

Seven questions were asked in 1991:
God: I know God exists and I have no doubts about it
Afterlife: I definitely believe in life after death
Bible: The Bible is the actual word of God and it is to be taken literally, word for word. A yes answer implies that the subject believes in the inerrancy of the Bible.
Devil: I definitely believe in the Devil.
Hell: I definitely believe in Hell.
Heaven: I definitely believe in Heaven.
Miracle: I definitely believe in religious miracles.

Results are shown below. Appended to the list are:

the results of a survey showing the percentage of persons who said yes to the following question:

In your opinion, how true is this? ...Human beings developed from earlier species of animals.. The results are a measure of belief in human evolution, and disbelief in creation science.


CountryGodAfterlifeBibleDevilHellHeavenMiraclesEvolution
United States62.855.033.545.449.663.1 45.635.4
N. Ireland61.453.532.743.1 47.963.744.251.5
Philippines86.235.2 53.728.329.6 41.927.760.9
Ireland 58.745.924.9 24.825.951.8 36.960.1
Poland 66.337.837.4 15.421.438.6 22.735.4
Italy 51.434.827.0 20.421.727.9 32.965.2
New Zealand29.335.59.421.418.732.223.166.3
Israel43.021.926.712.622.524.026.456.9
Austria 29.424.812.711.110.020.127.4N/A
Norway20.131.611.213.111.423.017.865.0
Great Britain23.826.57.012.712.824.615.376.7
Netherlands24.726.7 8.413.311.1 21.110.258.6
W. Germany27.324.412.59.59.318.222.772.7
Russia12.416.89.912.513.014.718.741.4
Slovenia 21.911.622.3 6.98.39.513.460.7
Hungary 30.110.619.24.25.89.48.262.8
E. Germany9.26.17.53.62.610.211.881.6


Some observations
* All numbers are in percentages.
* since 1944, the Gallup Poll has been asking Americans whether they believe in God or a universal spirit. The answers have always been 94% or more affirmative. These numbers have been so widely reported in academic articles, and the media that they have been almost etched in stone. However, the ISSP results are under 63%. The wide gap is probably due to the different wording of the question asked. The ISSP requires a degree of certainty of belief that is not present in the Gallup Poll. This shows that many Americans who believe in God are not that certain about their conviction.
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The US is still more religious than many countries, but not to the 91% level that's claimed in South Dakota. Of course it may be that 91% of the people in South Dakota are practicing Christians, but it didn't look that way when we visited the Black Hills a few years ago.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who wishes z wasn't so cranky about MSHTML tables, but realizes it's not trivial to have a bullet-proof parser for such a thing...)
New Not to mention the outright lies
Surveys of Americans say that about 40% report going to church at least once a week. Numbers derived from actual church attendance figures say that it's closer to 20%.

Jay
New missing are the following
how many people beleive american Idol is real?
how many people think windows is secure
how many people think that sex in the city accurately portrays your chances of random not paid for sex in NYC acually happens
how many people.....
fuckwits all
thanx,
bill
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
New We all have our crutches to help us get through the day. :-)
     Just so you know where you fit in.... - (dmcarls) - (26)
         Please remind me... - (ben_tilly) - (12)
             It's interesting to compare state Wikipedia entries. - (Another Scott) - (7)
                 A coupla dozen ought to do it.... -NT - (jb4)
                 Implication - (drewk) - (3)
                     now lets subdivide - (boxley) - (2)
                         I think for most it just means they kill a tree a year -NT - (tuberculosis) - (1)
                             ROTFL -NT - (ben_tilly)
                 Here in California it's 75% Christian, 20% nonreligeous . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                     And the world's 7th largest economy(*)... -NT - (Another Scott)
             Also, Ben... - (dmcarls) - (3)
                 You may have missed my point - (ben_tilly) - (2)
                     you would not rather try to masquerade as an ? - (boxley) - (1)
                         I would not. -NT - (ben_tilly)
         Run, get out while you can? - (warmachine) - (9)
             :-0 from the crew that dances around oak trees - (boxley) - (3)
                 Yeah, they're really representative of the UK gestalt... - (pwhysall) - (2)
                     what you quit going to the rugby clubs? -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                         It takes leather balls to play rugby... -NT - (hnick)
             The answers in polls depend on how the questions are asked. - (Another Scott) - (3)
                 Not to mention the outright lies - (JayMehaffey)
                 missing are the following - (boxley) - (1)
                     We all have our crutches to help us get through the day. :-) -NT - (Another Scott)
             Pagans don't care about atheists, so I'm not worried -NT - (warmachine)
         But what about the gay atheists? They must be the worst! :) -NT - (Meerkat) - (2)
             Gay atheist lepers on crack, burning a Flag; if paraplegics? - (Ashton) - (1)
                 gay athiest lepers? Keep the tip -NT - (boxley)

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