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1/3 of Younger Americans Are NOT Affiliated with Any Religion
The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace.
One-fifth of the U.S. public — and one third of adults under 30 — are religiously unaffiliated. Young adults today are much more likely to be unaffiliated than previous generations were at a similar stage in their lives. These generational differences are consistent with other signs of the increasing irrelevance of religion among many Americans.
On mormon.org/chat right now
Chattin’ with some real Mormon missionaries. Give it a whirl! They’re just as absurd online as they are in real life.
Many people, especially religious people, believe that the brain and the mind are two separate entities. They’re philosophical dualists. Most religions espouse such an idea, and dualist beliefs are found in virtually all human cultures.
New research now demonstrates that espousing a dualist philosophy can have important real-life consequences. Across five related studies, researchers found that people primed with dualist beliefs had more reckless attitudes toward health and exercise, and also preferred (and ate) a less healthy diet than those who held more scientific physicalist beliefs (that the mind/body duality does not, in fact, exist).
Furthermore, they found that the relationship also worked in the other direction. People who were primed with unhealthy behaviors, such as pictures of unhealthy food, reported a stronger dualistic belief than participants who were primed with healthy behaviors.
Overall, the findings from the five studies provide converging evidence demonstrating that mind-body dualistic beliefs decrease the likelihood of engaging in healthy behaviors — the more people perceive their minds and bodies to be distinct entities, the less likely they will be to engage in behaviors that protect their bodies because they view their bodies as being a disposable vessel that merely helps the mind interact with the physical world.
Called it.
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Americans’ [Dis]Belief in Evolution
jtotheizzoe:
A full 46% of those surveyed believe that God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years. The number has essentially remained unchanged for the past 30 years (44% in 1982).
You can check the Gallup report for the detailed results, but a few things jumped out at me:
Among people who never attend church, a full 25% still subscribe to creationist views.
There’s only a 17% difference (58% vs. 41%) between Republicans and Democrats.
Almost 4 out of 5 Americans believe God had a hand in creating humans in some way.
What bothers me is that evolution is at the core of so much of science, and to dismiss its truth is akin to a mathematician dismissing that 1 is half of 2, or a chemist refusing to acknowledge the existence of electrons. You simply cannot fully immerse your brain in the workings of our living world without evolution.
And in thirty years of bloody-knuckled work to bring science into people’s lives, it feels like we still haven’t gotten anywhere.
(via Gallup)
Scientists are obviously scheming for grant money to do lesbian witchcraft on your children.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ya65lt3L1qbh26io1_500.png)
Americans’ [Dis]Belief in Evolution
A full 46% of those surveyed believe that God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years. The number has essentially remained unchanged for the past 30 years (44% in 1982).
You can check the Gallup report for the detailed results, but a few things jumped out at me:
- Among people who never attend church, a full 25% still subscribe to creationist views.
- There’s only a 17% difference (58% vs. 41%) between Republicans and Democrats.
- Almost 4 out of 5 Americans believe God had a hand in creating humans in some way.
What bothers me is that evolution is at the core of so much of science, and to dismiss its truth is akin to a mathematician dismissing that 1 is half of 2, or a chemist refusing to acknowledge the existence of electrons. You simply cannot fully immerse your brain in the workings of our living world without evolution.
And in thirty years of bloody-knuckled work to bring science into people’s lives, it feels like we still haven’t gotten anywhere.
(via Gallup)
Scientists are obviously scheming for grant money to do lesbian witchcraft on your children.
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Exactly.
Lol yeah, except “BCE” and “CE” are still determined by the times before and after Jesus.
Wait wait wait — the Catholic Church is being hypocritical?? How uncharacteristic of them.
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Today in Anderson Cooper making people look stupid simply by asking questions: This lady. It may be the best entry in this subgenre of news since this video. (via pbump)
Oh my god, this bitch…
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Yea, so we’ve already heard stories from thousands of years ago about stuff that did’nt happen.
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