Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop failure and other disasters not as natural occurrences, but as the result of the activities of supernatural powers.

万物有灵论者相信死亡、疾病、作物欠收和其它灾难并非自然现象，而是超自然力量作用的结果。

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Many scientists who write disparagingly about religion focus on the conscious, explicit beliefs in God and the supernatural.

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An ICM poll in 2004 found that 91 percent of Americans believed in the supernatural, 74 percent believed in an afterlife and 71 percent said they were willing to die for their beliefs.

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