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Topic started on 22-10-2012 @ 12:21 PM by karl 12
I suppose you can 'beleive' in either and you don't necessarily have to subscribe to a religious cult (or sect) to accept the notion of some kind of supreme being but there's a relevant survey below taken recently in the UK which seems to show more folks now 'believe in space aliens than in god'.

Granted you always have to be a bit sceptical of 'surveys' but I thought it made some interesting points, especially when it states that over half those interviewed believe UFO evidence has been covered up by the government and 1 in 10 had witnessed an 'unidentified flying object'.


Space Alien:





More than 33 million U.K. citizens believe in extraterrestrial life, compared to just over 27 million -- less than half the country -- who believe in God.

That's the result of an online survey of 1,359 adults who were asked a variety of questions ranging from belief in alien visits to Earth, suspicions of UFO cover-ups, belief in extraterrestrials vs. belief in God, and whether or not men actually landed on the moon.

The survey, conducted by Opinion Matters, revealed the following statistics among those surveyed:

•52 percent believe UFO evidence has been covered up because widespread knowledge of their existence would threaten government stability.

•44 percent believe in God.

•One in 10 people has reported seeing a UFO.

•A quarter more men than women claim to have seen UFOs.

•20 percent of respondents believe UFOs have landed on Earth.

•More than five million British citizens believe the Apollo moon landings were faked.


While the survey was conducted as part of a tie-in with a new video game, "XCOM: Enemy Unknown," it was a legitimate sampling of opinions that can be taken to represent the population of the U.K., according to the agency that conducted the survey.


"Yes, it has been done with an independent panel through a bonafide research company," said Karen Brooks, managing director of Opinion Matters, a well-known market research agency that created the survey.

"Surveys can be done face-to-face, over the telephone and online. This one was a U.K. adult sample, which is quite broad, and doing it online is a quick, effective way of getting to that audience," she continued. "We make sure that all of the questions are compliant from a research perspective."

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Anyone out there have any thoughts on this one - personally I'm not the biggest fan of organised religion and think the universe is probably teeming with life (link) so I'd say certain aspects of the survey are a good thing.. and yes, before anyone says it I know UFO does not mean 'alien'.
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reply posted on 22-10-2012 @ 01:05 PM by TheLieWeLive
reply to post by sligtlyskeptical

Praise E.T., somebody gets it.
God, Angels, Demons = Extra Terrestrial.

Many don't want to even think about that because if they did they would start to see the reasoning behind it.
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reply posted on 22-10-2012 @ 01:15 PM by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by maryhinge


That's the result of an online survey of 1,359 adults who were asked a variety of questions ranging from belief in alien visits to Earth, suspicions of UFO cover-ups, belief in extraterrestrials vs. belief in God, and whether or not men actually landed on the moon
reply to post by karl 12

So they can work this out by only 1,356 adults taking the survey no offence to you OP


Most opinion polls (such as the ones we in the U.S. have seen lately for president) are sometimes based on only about 1,500 to 2,000 respondents. The next opinion poll you see on TV will probaly be madeup of less than 5,000 respondents.

My concern with this poll is what 'Lonewulph" mentioned in a post above -- and that is that this survey was a tie-in to a video game. Does that mean that mostly video-game enthusiast were the target response group?



reply posted on 22-10-2012 @ 03:54 PM by karl 12
Originally posted by MrUncreated

It's difficult to believe there's a god, when the world is in the state it's in. That's my personal feeling about it.


MrUncreated, thanks for the reply and I'm sure many people feel the same way you do... although I would speculate that most (if not all) of mankind's current problems are 'man made' (as are all the gods worshipped by organised religion as well).

Found this relevant quote by Anne Druyan in an old thread about the Voyager spacecraft's 'pale blue dot' image and thought it brought up quite a few important points about life elsewhere and specific religious beliefs - especially when she talks about different perspectives.


Earth taken by spacecraft Voyager 1 - 4 billion miles away:





Ann Druyan suggest an experiment: Take a look at the pale blue dot image. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step further: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn't strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by a different form of intelligent life. They, too, cherish the notion of a God who has created everything for their benefit. How seriously do you take their claim?

Carl Sagan, Cosmos


PDF file


Cheers.


reply posted on 22-10-2012 @ 04:18 PM by Lonewulph
reply to post by karl 12


Very nice response and fun to think about.

I'm not an overtly religious man, but in private, I find a comfort in having a faith, believing we all have eternal spirits, there's no harm done if I'm wrong,...but personally, it provides a net of hope within me, and I prefer to believe that I am much more than this physical shell, and there's much more than this world. A safe harbor for my thoughts in times such as these where man is destroying himself. I feel I have something to look forward to and I feel sorry for those who choose to live without such a faith. Perhaps that might be why they come across so...grumpy.

Here's an amusing 2003 thread on the question of 'did God create many worlds?.

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reply posted on 22-10-2012 @ 04:51 PM by karl 12
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People

I'd like to see the numbers broken down by "people who believe in ET life elsewhere" and "people who believe in alien visitation".


Hey mate, so would I and as Justwokeup has already pointed out, the sample group would have to be completely random to gain any worthwhile info.

There are two newspaper articles below which deal with Gallop UFO polls taken in 1973 and 1978 which also raise some interesting points about increases in witness percentages and a sharp rise in number of people believing in ET life elsewhere...but they don't really make the distinction either.


1973:

“More Than 15 Million People Have Seen UFOs".

News Archive



1978:

“13 Million In U.S. Have Had ‘Close Encounter’”.

News Archive




Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People

I believe that ET life almost certainly exists elsewhere in the universe, but I don't necessarily feel there is enough evidence for me to say that the Earth is being visited by aliens (although I don't discount that possibility).


Well, there's certainly some extremely compelling UFO cases out there but I agree there's no 'unequivocable proof' as to the true nature of the objects involved (it really does make one wonder though).

I don't know if you've seen the doc in Orkojoker's thread below featuring interviews with scientists about the prospect of ET visitation but I really did enjoy it and it's very well done - this film which accompanies the doc is also well worth a watch if you're into that sort of thing.


THE Best Set of UFO Interviews I've Ever Seen


Cheers.
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