The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418   Message #2264121
Posted By: Little Hawk
16-Feb-08 - 05:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Nice interview with S.J. I don't think, however, that a statistic stating that "x" number of people believe in ghosts or in Angles proves anything....until you find out WHY they believe in ghosts or in Angels.

For instance, I believe in evolution and science...and I also believe in ghosts and Angels. You would have to know WHY I believe in ghosts and angels before you could arrive at any kind of realistic assumptions about my beliefs in general.

It is not enough to simply assume that those beliefs (science vs ghosts? evolution vs Angels) are in some way contradictory...and that one MUST therefore believe either one or the other...as if they lay on two sides of an irreconcilable divide. Life is not that simple.

And this is one reason why opinion polls can be very misleading...the questions they ask are too limiting.