Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
On a regular basis Gallup runs an “Ethics and Honesty” ratings poll for various professions. The results are perhaps predictable and expected for some. What is a tad interesting is to compare the latest results with previous polls and see where trends are going. However, there is also problem here. How meaningful are polls that … Read more
Today as you wake and look out, you might indeed conclude that the landscape you see is exactly the same as yesterday. It is not. You have woken up in a new world, an alien landscape. This is a place that was once peopled by tens of millions who previously identified with organised religion. Something … Read more
On Oct 4th, the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) published their report on the role that religion plays when it comes to the topic of thinking about Climate Change. If you are wondering how they created this then wonder no more. It was done via a survey of just over 5,192 adults living in all 50 … Read more
So this piece of utterly bizarre weirdness popped up … Yes, they really do indeed mean “Trump”, not some other devout individual who just happens to be unfortunately stuck with the same name. This is the same Trump, who behind closed doors says stuff like the following when faced with pastors clamouring to lay hands … Read more
Some words have very specific well understood meanings and some do not. For example if I told you that I liked coffee, then you would probably, if curious, ask for a bit more detail, “What kind of coffee?”. Rather obviously I might mean filtered, instant, or even that I grind special beans after they have … Read more
Pew published a poll on April 13 which revealed that many young Latinos are abandoning their traditional Catholicism and are instead becoming “Nones” (Nothing in Particular). Let’s first take a pass at what they survey reveals. Be warned, data statistics might sound “dull”, but there are a couple of “wow” moments coming up. Poll: Among … Read more