This fascinating chart on faith and climate change denial has been reinforced by new research

[MisterP]

7. it's most definitely a dialectic or a feedback cycle between denomination and identity

people even convert based on politics now, while at the same time evolution and the environment are turned into badges of one's group affiliation: you do/don't "believe" in X or Y because of who you run with

and look how BUNCHY it is, too--there's the populist conservatives, the mainstream (under 50% in the US now), and that interesting group up at the 1.0/1.0 cross

I'm piqued now: I wanna see a graph from before the Baptist coup, or from other countries--my devout European Catholic relatives can only stop and stare when I casually mentioned that 50% of the US thinks the Earth's 6,000 years old: this process just doesn't happen on the Continent, or even Brazil, Canada, or Britain (which have more DIY and charismatic lineages)