Living the Supernatural Life Part Eight: Supernatural Authority.
Societal Success vs Belief in Supernatural
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• Belief in: God, Heaven, Hell, Life After Death, Bible Literal Truth• Regularly: Pray, Attend religious Services• Agnostic or Atheist
• Homicides• Incarceration• Suicides: ages 15-24• Suicides: all ages• Under age 5 mortality• Lifespan• Gonorrhea: ages15-19• Gonorrhea: all ages• Syphilis: ages 15-19• Syphilis: all ages• Abortions: ages 15-19• Births: ages 15-17• Fertility• Marriages• Marriage duration• Divorces• Alcohol consumption• Life satisfaction• Corruption• Per capita income• Income inequality• Poverty index• Employment levels• Average hours worked• Resource exploitation
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• From: Gregory Paul, “The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfunctional Psycho-sociological Condition”, Evolutionary Psychology, www.epjournal.net – 2009, 7(3): 398-441.
http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP073984414.pdf. • Gregory Paul uses the more pejorative, “Religiosity”, instead of “Belief in Supernatural” or “Spirituality”
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Scale• Accept Evolution
Societal Success vs. “Belief in Supernatural”*
(17 countries)
• International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
• 45 Countries• 800 million people;35 questions
ISSP: 1998
• Gallup Poll, 2006• Eurobarometer, 2005 survey
Evolution