Quote:Is it really true that 8% of all American Atheists are 'absolutely certain' to believe in God? :blink:Below the 10% threshold you're in the domain of the confused and the strange. Equally oddly, 5% of Muslims don't believe in God? Surely, this is merely representative of people who are answering randomly, or who don't understand the question, or dropped a negative somewhere.
Maybe the issue is understanding what the words mean - maybe some people think "Muslim" means "anyone from the middle east." Maybe they think "Atheist" is someone who doesn't go to church, or maybe they meant to say they're "absolutely certain" that God *doesn't* exist, but just answered backwards. We are talking about a very small number of people at this point - in the "Atheist Muslim" case, the number is about 11. The "Theist Atheists" number 41. Do I believe that 6, or even 41, people out of 35,000 are confused, stupid, or deceptive in any particular way? To quote the lovely Ms. Palin, you betcha.
-Jester