Wood claims that religious people reject evolution because, basically, natural selection is viscerally unsettling.
Have done with causality at the level that religious people keep arguing about, and simply move on.
Historically, religious people and secular new-agey types understand what it means to transform instead of merely change.
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They are not Islamists, they are Muslims, religious people, but the party is not an Islamist party.
You know, in our society, you can't criticize any groups, but conservatives, religious people, it's just open season.
He also points out that religious people enjoy an unassailable demographic advantage over non-believers by having more children.
Connor Wood has an interesting essay on his belief in why some religious people reject evolutionary theory.
"It was so scary at that time, because we were chased by all the religious people, " al Bakr says.
Two myths the author does reaffirm: Teenagers do "stupid and reckless things, " and "religious people are happier" than those who aren't.
For instance, research has demonstrated that spiritual or religious people are less likely to engage in suicidal behavior, for unclear reasons.
These are values that religious people share but they hold similar appeal to those of us who prefer to sleep late on Sundays.
Married, religious people are more likely than secular singles to be happy.
Intellectuals and religious people are beginning to ask what has gone wrong.
But the poll also suggested that support for a law change decreased among religious people who actively participated in church or religious groups.
The Bishop of Leicester, the right reverend Tim Stevens, warned the issue was creating a division between the political classes and practising religious people.
The chief executive of the BHA, Andrew Copson, is running a national campaign encouraging non-religious people to state their unbelief clearly on their census forms.
Nina Azari, a neuroscientist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo who also has a doctorate in theology, has looked at the brains of religious people.
In one case, religious people are trying to force their beliefs and practices on others, while in the other case, a particular group of people would like to have the same rights as another group.
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"There are plenty of religious people who die young and plenty of atheists who live to 103, " said Dr. Andrew Newberg, director of research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.
In 1981, a researcher who surveyed more than 700 people from different neighbourhoods in a medium-size city expected to find that religious people were especially sociable, helpful to their neighbours and likely to participate in neighbourhood organizations.
However, he said that the nature of the surveys used meant that undetected factors, perhaps in the lifestyle or upbringing of religious people, such as stable family life and relationships, could be the cause of this increased satisfaction.
In many other parts of the world, secular greens and religious people find themselves on the same side of public debates: sometimes hesitantly, sometimes tactically, and sometimes fired by a sense that they have deep things in common.
In an interview published in this month's Wired magazine, Dawkins estimated the number of non-religious people in the U.S. to be around 30 million and compared atheists' struggle for recognition as equivalent to previous campaigns by other minority groups.
According to an opinion poll last year, 33% of evangelicals think hurricanes are a deliberate act of God which presumably means that man should not mess with them. (Some 13% of non-evangelical Protestants, 15% of Catholics and, bizarrely, 17% of non-religious people agree.) Twenty-two leading evangelicals wrote to the National Association of Evangelicals asking it not to endorse the climate initiative.
What the law will do is to ask people to consider making religious services accessible to disabled people as a matter of course - it is not a cast iron rule that every church, mosque, synagogue or temple has to have a wheelchair ramp.
For centuries, racial minorities, people with unconventional religious or political views, and people with niche cultural tastes have flocked to cities not only because they were more likely to find other people like themselves, but also because people in big cities tend to be more tolerant in general.
Many studies have shown that people who have spiritual or religious lives are healthier than people who do not.
Prison Service director Robin Masefield said they had no control over the religious backgrounds of people sent to jail.
Ramirez, the museum's curator, said regardless of religious belief, people found inspiration in the cross and that is why it was included in the museum.
The implication is that religious diversity causes people to keep themselves to themselves, and thus makes it harder for them to catch germs from infidels.
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