Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Is there life on Mars? Not if you're a US evangelical


Evangelical Protestants in the US think it's more likely that Jesus will return in the next 40 years than that humans will make significant strides in space exploration.

That's according to research by University of Dayton political science assistant professor Joshua Ambrosius.

Ambrosius used data from the General Social Survey and three Pew surveys to compare attitudes to space exploration among Catholics, evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Jews, adherents of Eastern religions and those with no religion.

He presented his research at a Society for the Scientific Study of Religion conference in Indianapolis earlier this month. Read more

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