> > Interesting. > > Do you have any background on what appear to be survey results? > > The discrepancy is between 42% agreeing that the Bible is the actual Word of > God and responses of 60% to 64% of respondents beliving that any *specific* > Genesis narrative is literally true. > > The "face validity", naive interpretation would be that about 22% of > respondents are quasi-literalists. They do not believe that one is *obliged* > to use a literalist hermenutic, but in the specific case of passage-X they > think some sort of literalist interpretation is appropriate. So one might > not want to burn witches, one might be an amillinealist vis-a-vis the > Appocalypse of St. John but one belives that Moses parted the Red Sea in some > sense that can be squared with literalism.
I got something close to that order, but they were different surveys. They are at: http://www.pollingreport.com/religion.htm The first one I quoted was an ABC poll, the second one was a Virginia Commonwealth University Life Sciences Survey. Both had 1000 adults questioned. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
