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- Roughly a quarter of all U.S. adults (26%) say that they do not believe in heaven or hell, including 7% who say they do believe in some kind of afterlife and 17% who do not believe in any afterlife at all.
www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/11/23/views-on-the-afterlife/Views on the afterlife among U.S. adults | Pew Research Center
Jun 30, 2021 · The 12% of adults who said they were following the developments most closely are particularly inclined to believe in intelligent life outside Earth (80%) and to believe that military-reported UFOs are at least probably evidence of such life (65%).
- Religious Americans less likely to believe intelligent life ...
Most White non-evangelical Protestants (65%), Catholics...
- Views on the afterlife among U.S. adults | Pew Research Center
Roughly half of all U.S. adults (48%) believe that people in...
- Religious Americans less likely to believe intelligent life ...
Jun 28, 2022 · A poll (National Science Foundation, 2014) found that 26% of Americans believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
Jul 28, 2021 · Most White non-evangelical Protestants (65%), Catholics (67%) and religiously unaffiliated adults (80%) say their best guess is that there is intelligent life beyond Earth. Black Protestants are more divided on the topic, with 55% saying their best guess is that intelligent life exists on other planets and 44% expressing the opposite opinion.
- Katherine Schaeffer
The most widespread conspiracy claims in the United States today, such as belief in a “stolen” 2020 election, align with political identity. For purposes of this survey, however, we focused on science-related statements without overt political content: NASA astronauts did not really land on the Moon.
- Majorities of U.S. Adults Say They Believe in Heaven, Hell
- Believers Largely See Heaven as Free from Suffering, Hell as Just The Opposite
- Fewer Than Half of Americans Believe in Reincarnation, Fate
- Most Americans Believe People Can Communicate with God Or Other Higher Power
- Most Believe Some Interaction Is Possible Between The Living and The Dead
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults say they believe in heaven. (The survey did not immediately offer a definition of heaven, though subsequent questions explored what respondents think heaven is like.) Large majorities of all Christian subgroups say they believe in heaven, while belief is much less common among religiously unaffiliated Americans ...
In addition to asking about general belief in heaven and hell, the survey asked about specific characteristics of these two destinations to determine what Americans think they are like. In the case of heaven, respondents were presented with nine prospective traits, and asked whether heaven is “definitely like this,” “probably like this,” “probably ...
The survey also asked respondents about a few other concepts associated with the afterlife or the supernatural. Though the share of adults who believe in reincarnation – i.e., that “people will be reborn again and again in this world” – is much lower than the share who believe in heaven or hell, it is a view held by a substantial minority of the po...
The survey also gave examples of various supernatural occurrences and asked respondents to say whether they think each is possible, and if so, whether they had ever personally experienced it. Fully two-thirds of U.S. adults believe it is possible for people to receive a “definite answer to a specific prayer request,” and the same share (67%) think ...
About seven-in-ten Americans say it is possible to feel “the presence of someone who has died,” while roughly half say that living people can be helped by those who have passed (51%) or communicate with them in some way (47%). When asked about their personal experiences with the deceased, 44% of U.S. adults say that they have felt the presence of s...
Aug 19, 2021 · The vast majority of atheists (85 percent) believe intelligent life exists on other planets, but far fewer (31 percent) say that UFOs reported by the military are likely evidence of that life.
Dec 1, 2007 · In pursuit of evidence that life arose on Earth more than once, scientists are searching for microbes that are radically different from all known organisms
