The question was “Beliefs in addition to atheism (pick all that apply)”
When I wrote “in addition to atheism”, I intended to indicate that only atheists should respond. I have never heard of an atheist who is not an evolutionist, but of the 24 who have responded to date, only 21 were evolutionists, while 4 were conservatives. I’m willing to bet that 3 of the conservatives were creationists, and hence not atheists. Perhaps there was a little difficulty with reading comprehension in the non-evolutionists. Let’s be generous and assume that they did not read the question carefully. Obviously, there is another possible explanation for comprehension errors made by conservative, creationist, theists.
The number of liberals nearly matched the number of humanists, and the number of skeptics nearly equalled the number of evolutionists.
Liberal = 17 (70%)
Conservative = 4 (16%)
Humanist = 16 (66%)
Skeptic = 20 (83%)
Evolutionist = 21 (87%)
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Lest I forget
One of these days I may find time to learn how to write the code for polls. Until I do, I'm limited to Google's polls or one of the online poll generators.I set up a Google poll a little while ago and wanted to post the results before it closes. Thanks to everyone who participated.
If you wish to make your mark on the poll, there are a few days remaining.
The poll set-up did not allow for instructions, so some people were obviously a little confused by the questions.
When I realized this, I added the following request: "If you wish to participate in the poll below, please indicate whether your background is liberal or conservative and amidst or in which of the Abrahamic religions you were raised." I shall assume that the percentages of respondents in the categories before and after that clarification were approximately equivalent:
liberal 68%
conservative 32%
Christianity 93%
Islam 3%
Judaism 3%
conservative 32%
Christianity 93%
Islam 3%
Judaism 3%
I had expected that liberal backgrounds would appear overrepresented because I suspected that it's easier to deconvert to atheism from liberal roots. I could not ask the country in which respondents lived.
At top left is a map of religiosity in the US (lightest less than 35%, tan 35-50%, orange 50-75%, and most horrifying of all, brown at over 75%).
Potential atheism (below) could be taken as the inverse of this map (right).
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