Percentage of Republicans who believe in evolution is shrinking

[RainDog]

45. I don't remember that

do you have a link? I'm not sure what you're talking about.

There's a guy who was in a doc I saw years ago. He's a CEO and he came to an understanding that he couldn't operate his business for the sake of one quarter's profit report because he has a responsibility to leave a world for his grandchildren to live in. Ah, found a link... the full movie is on youtube, but I saw it in a theater a while back.

Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, the world's largest commercial carpet manufacturer, had an environmental epiphany and re-organized his $1.4 billion company on sustainable principles. His company may be a beacon of corporate hope, but is it an exception to the rule?

http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=312

He's not particularly religious, tho.

The breakdown, unfortunately, indicates that protestant fundamentalism, again, stands in the way of progress on an issue that impacts the entire world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/global-warming-and-religi_b_864014.html

Evidence exists that many who deny the dangers of global warming do so out of religious conviction. A Pew survey asked the following question: "Is there solid evidence the earth is warming?" Let me just give the percentages who said yes and agreed that it is the result of human activity:

Total U.S. population 47 %; Unaffiliated with any church 58 %; White mainline Protestants 48 %; White, non-Hispanic Catholics 44 %; Black Protestants 39 %; White evangelical Protestants 34 %.

But the good news, looking at those numbers, is that the number of unaffiliated is growing and growing fastest among younger voters. That's good news because they aren't told to believe lies about science in order to practice a religious faith. Here's some info from the last Pew Poll:

http://religions.pewforum.org/reports

The survey finds that the number of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith today (16.1%) is more than double the number who say they were not affiliated with any particular religion as children. Among Americans ages 18-29, one-in-four say they are not currently affiliated with any particular religion.

The Landscape Survey confirms that the United States is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant country; the number of Americans who report that they are members of Protestant denominations now stands at barely 51%. Moreover, the Protestant population is characterized by significant internal diversity and fragmentation, encompassing hundreds of different denominations loosely grouped around three fairly distinct religious traditions - evangelical Protestant churches (26.3% of the overall adult population), mainline Protestant churches (18.1%) and historically black Protestant churches (6.9%).

While those Americans who are unaffiliated with any particular religion have seen the greatest growth in numbers as a result of changes in affiliation, Catholicism has experienced the greatest net losses as a result of affiliation changes. While nearly one-in-three Americans (31%) were raised in the Catholic faith, today fewer than one-in-four (24%) describe themselves as Catholic. These losses would have been even more pronounced were it not for the offsetting impact of immigration. The Landscape Survey finds that among the foreign-born adult population, Catholics outnumber Protestants by nearly a two-to-one margin (46% Catholic vs. 24% Protestant); among native-born Americans, on the other hand, the statistics show that Protestants outnumber Catholics by an even larger margin (55%

I posted this here, long ago. It breaks down a lot of the problems with fundy protestant religious belief for this nation, when it impacts politics.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002185204

edit to add: the problem with religious believers in the U.S. is that conflate social democracy with "godless commies" and other such b.s. from nearly a century ago. Nations in the west without a large number of fundamentalists have better quality of life indices across the board. The U.S. is the only western nation with this backward pov.