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Progress on ScienceDebate2008
Category: Politics
Posted on: December 27, 2007 10:20 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Lucy | December 27, 2007 11:39 AM
This makes me so happy...thanks for the good news, needed it...especially after what happened in Pakistan
Posted by: Chris Bell | December 27, 2007 11:51 AM
If you attend a university and you don't see your administration on the list of signatories - agitate.
Posted by: Arnaud | December 27, 2007 11:56 AM
Le Monde had a mention of this a few days ago in a piece about the dominance of religion in the US political landscape.
Some good statistical data towards the end of the article:
How much of that is due to outspoken "militant" atheists, I wonder, and how much thanks to framing...
Posted by: danley | December 27, 2007 12:23 PM
Get Slimy Sal to chair. He's young republican, just like his cosmos.
Posted by: rp | December 27, 2007 12:39 PM
Between 2003 and 2007 the percentage of people who affirm never doubting the existence of god has lost 8 percentage points (still high at 61%).
Never doubting??? I never believed. I used to try to believe, when I was like 10 and my mother made my father haul me to Sunday school (luckily, he used to come back to get me afterwards), but I always thought it was just fairy stories, or maybe the history of delusional people, but I never did believe.
Posted by: Doug | December 27, 2007 12:49 PM
My vote is education. That's how my spouse's and her siblings broke the chain. However, that's only the ones who have technical degrees. The non-technical siblings still believe in Jebus.Posted by: Helblindi | December 27, 2007 12:59 PM
I will be mightily impressed if scienceblogia (is that the current term?) actually manages to pull this off - a science debate would be a far better proof of the power of the net community in these elections than mushy YouTube recordings of candidates and their loving families. I wish we'd have something like that over here...