BELIEVERS & NON BELIEVERS

[BIll M]

BELIEVERS & NON BELIEVERS



Unbelievers are concentrated at the higher end of the educational scale

-- a recent Harris American poll shows that 31 percent of those with
postgraduate education do not avow belief in God (compared with only 14
percent of those with a high
school education or less). The percentage rises among professors and
then again among professors at research universities, reaching 93
percent among members of the National Academy of Sciences. Unbelievers
are to be found concentrated among those whose professional lives
emphasize science or rationality and who also have developed a
relatively high level of confidence in their own intellectual
faculties. And they are frequently teachers or opinion-makers.

[SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim]

Post by BIll M
BELIEVERS & NON BELIEVERS
Unbelievers are concentrated at the higher end of the educational scale
-- a recent Harris American poll shows that 31 percent of those with
postgraduate education do not avow belief in God (compared with only 14
percent of those with a high
school education or less). The percentage rises among professors and
then again among professors at research universities, reaching 93
percent among members of the National Academy of Sciences. Unbelievers
are to be found concentrated among those whose professional lives
emphasize science or rationality and who also have developed a
relatively high level of confidence in their own intellectual
faculties. And they are frequently teachers or opinion-makers.

that's because NON-BELIEVERS don't believe the HORSESHIT RAMBLINGS of
superstitious cave dwellers and goat fuckers?

just look at the states that religious nut huckabee won, most of them were
the "cousin-loving" states

[Electric Elvis]

On Feb 18, 2:10 pm, "BIll M" <***@bellsouth.net> wrote:

<snip>

Post by BIll M
Unbelievers
are to be found concentrated among those whose professional lives
emphasize science or rationality and who also have developed a
relatively high level of confidence in their own intellectual
faculties. And they are frequently teachers or opinion-makers.

<fundy theist>
And it just goes to show that all along they've been trying to justify
replacing the worship of God with the the worship of themselves as
God! That's secular humanism for you.
</fundy theist>

Wait, that doesn't come off right. Let me try again:

<fundy theist>
AND IT JST GOS TO SHOW THAT THEIR PLAYING AT BEING GOD!!!!! INSTEAD OF
WORHIPING HIM!!!!!

WE HAVE TO STOP SECLAR HUMANISM!!!!!
</fundy theis>

OK, how was that second try? Please rate it on a scale of 1 to 10, 1
being too obvious and 10 being a dead ringer.

[Pastor Frank]

Post by BIll M
BELIEVERS & NON BELIEVERS
Unbelievers are concentrated at the higher end of the educational scale
-- a recent Harris American poll shows that 31 percent of those with
postgraduate education do not avow belief in God (compared with only 14
percent of those with a high
school education or less). The percentage rises among professors and
then again among professors at research universities, reaching 93
percent among members of the National Academy of Sciences. Unbelievers
are to be found concentrated among those whose professional lives
emphasize science or rationality and who also have developed a
relatively high level of confidence in their own intellectual
faculties. And they are frequently teachers or opinion-makers.

Yes. They are the smart ones, who invented better weapons of mass
destruction, and the policies which allows us to use them. Furthermore,
"Intellectual abilities" are gifts of the Lord, not anything we generate of
ourselves, and self-worship is not a virtue.
Though you appear wanting to be on of them, Bill, we are glad you are
not.

[rjbjr]

Post by BIll M
BELIEVERS & NON BELIEVERS
Unbelievers are concentrated at the higher end of the educational scale
-- a recent Harris American poll shows that 31 percent of those with
postgraduate education do not avow belief in God (compared with only 14
percent of those with a high
school education or less). The percentage rises among professors and
then again among professors at research universities, reaching 93
percent among members of the National Academy of Sciences. Unbelievers
are to be found concentrated among those whose professional lives
emphasize science or rationality and who also have developed a
relatively high level of confidence in their own intellectual
faculties. And they are frequently teachers or opinion-makers.

Dear Bill,
So, what's your conclusion from the data?
Be careful!
RJBJR

[sameold]

Tell that tripe to Newton or perhaps Einstein?

Post by BIll M
BELIEVERS & NON BELIEVERS
Unbelievers are concentrated at the higher end of the educational scale
-- a recent Harris American poll shows that 31 percent of those with
postgraduate education do not avow belief in God (compared with only 14
percent of those with a high
school education or less). The percentage rises among professors and
then again among professors at research universities, reaching 93
percent among members of the National Academy of Sciences. Unbelievers
are to be found concentrated among those whose professional lives
emphasize science or rationality and who also have developed a
relatively high level of confidence in their own intellectual
faculties. And they are frequently teachers or opinion-makers.

[Uncle Vic]

Post by sameold
Tell that tripe to Newton or perhaps Einstein?

Newton was a believer. Einstein was not.

[Christopher A. Lee]

Post by Uncle Vic

Post by sameold
Tell that tripe to Newton or perhaps Einstein?

Newton was a believer. Einstein was not.

And after his work in math, optics, gravity and motion he became a
mechanist - rather like a deist, who belived in a god that set up the
rules for the universe, and then left it to follow them.

[Richo]

Post by sameold
Tell that tripe to Newton or perhaps Einstein?

Its statistics - not absolute cause and effect.
You can smoke tobacco all your life and live to be 90.
If you have 10,000 people smoking for more than 20 years they are
going to have much higher rates of death from lung cancer and heart
disease and stroke than 10,000 people that never smoke.

Highly intelligent people can still be superstitious - humans are
great at "compartmentalizing" their beliefs.
Newton was a genius but a bit of a whacko in many ways.
Einstein didnt believe in a personal God by the way - he should have
used a different word because his God bears almost no resemblance to
the God of Monotheism.

Cheers, Mark