Polls

This week's poll: Will humans ever evolve beyond war?

By admin • November 18, 2012

Your Ad Here With the Israeli-Gaza conflict dominating the news, we thought we'd address war in our poll this week. According to Wars in

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This week's poll: Is the religious right losing its political influence?

By admin • November 8, 2012

religious zealots trying to convert people

The election is finally over — and hopefully, we don't have to listen to divisive political debates and ads for awhile. After months of

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This week's poll: Why the rise of the nones?

By admin • October 24, 2012

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life reported that the number of Americans who do not identify with

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This week's poll: Where should libraries file creationism books?

By admin • October 15, 2012

Via The Sensuous Curmudgeon, a clever blog about science vs. biblical creationism, we learned of an article titled, "Librarians Decide What is Reality" that

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This week's poll: Do you believe in the existence of the soul?

By admin • October 1, 2012

Our New Age and Spirituality editor Sheri Lawson recently wrote an interesting article about whether believing in the existence of souls improves our lives.

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This week's poll: What do you think about creating living clones of extinct species?

By admin • September 23, 2012

In an interesting discussion on the future of genetics, Dr. Michio Kaku suggested that science is not far from being able to "resurrect" extinct

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This week's poll – Which picture of Jesus do you like the best?

By admin • August 8, 2012

There are a lot of images of Jesus.  In this week's poll, we've selected a few of them and ask which one you like

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This week's poll: Should it be more difficult to claim religious exemptions to avoid having children vaccinated?

By admin • July 30, 2012

Last week, we reported on a story where a woman who believes vaccines are harmful allegedly bragged that her child spread chicken pox to

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This week's poll: What do you think of the religious right's remarks after the CO theater shooting?

By admin • July 24, 2012

After the mass shooting that claimed the lives of a dozen victims in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado last week, churches throughout the

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This week's poll: The Higgs boson and religion

By admin • July 14, 2012

The 4th of July marked a momentous day in science … CERN announced that there  is evidence of a new subatomic particle.  If this

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This week's poll: Is atheism a religion?

By admin • July 1, 2012

Critics of atheism like to say that atheism is a religion. For instance, the anti-evolution Creation Ministries characterizes atheism as a religion.  Following similar

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This week's poll: Do you support the death penalty?

By admin • June 25, 2012

death penalty

When the State of Georgia executed Troy Davis last September, the debate over the death penalty in America was reignited.  Christianity Today reported that,

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This week's poll: Is religious belief an acceptable excuse for criminal behavior?

By admin • June 18, 2012

legislating religion

Last week, a Florida man was accused of assaulting his wife for "using the Lord's name in vain" by smacking her head during an

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