RELIGION & ITS ALTERNATIVES

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AMERICANS HAVE MORE FAITH IN MILITARY & COPS THAN IN ORGANIZED RELIGION

MICHELLE RINDELS RELIGION NEWS SERVICE - Americans trust the military
and the police force significantly more than the church and organized
religion, a new Gallup Poll says. Only 46 percent of respondents said
they had either a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the
church, compared with 69 percent who said they trusted the military and
54 percent who trust police officers. The figures are among the lowest
for institutionalized religion in the three and a half decades that
Gallup has conducted the poll. Peaking at 68 percent in May 1975, the
numbers bottomed out at 45 percent in June of 2003.

But while confidence is waning for organized religion, the numbers are
even bleaker for other American institutions. Just 25 percent expressed
confidence in the presidency, while a mere 14 percent say they trust
Congress.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/220/story_22078_1.html

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BRITS PUT CREATIONISM IN ITS PLACE

BBC - The government has announced that it will publish guidance for
schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science
teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the
science curriculum.. . .
Responding to a petition, the government said: "The Government is aware
that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and elsewhere as
to whether creationism and intelligent design have a place in science
lessons. The Government is clear that creationism and intelligent design
are not part of the science National Curriculum programs of study and
should not be taught as science."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/id_not_science/

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