[WikiEN-l] Creationists (was: Following up -)

Fri Oct 31 19:49:10 UTC 2003

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>We should move this offlist.
>
>Poor, Edmund W wrote:
>
>>Off topic, but is it really this high?  I'd heard lower.
>>I guess like all surveys and statistics, it depends how you
>>ask the question and how you work the data ...
>>
>
>According to a survey released the other day, "half the atheists and
>agnostics surveyed believed that everyone had a soul, that heaven and
>hell existed and that there was life after death. 
>
I note the use of the past tense in these statments.  Saying that life 
after death (or eternal life) once existed but no longer does has some 
interesting logical implications.   ;-)

Ec