Mark Keown

I was interested to read on Teletext this morning the results of a Newsweek poll on American religious views. You can read about it at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17879317/site/newsweek/ The core results for American Adults are: 91% say they believe in God. 87% say they identify with a specific religion. 82% identify themselves as Christians 5% follow a non-Christian faith; say Judaism or Islam. 48% rejects the scientific theory of evolution 34% of college graduates say they accept the Biblical account of creation as fact. 73% of Evangelical Protestants say they believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. 39% percent of non-Evangelical Protestants and 41% of Catholics agree with that view. 10% identify themselves as having "no religion" 6% say that they don’t believe in a God at all. 3% of the public self-identifies as atheist 47% of the respondents felt the country is more accepting of atheists today than it used to be What do we make...