re: moses was a good bloke
People are naturally susceptable to religion. It's just another belief.
Are we living in the Age of Science? It would seem so. But if we are, why do so many pseudoscientific and non-scientific traditions abound? Religions, myths, superstitions, mysticisms, cults, New Age beliefs, and nonsense of all sorts have penetrated every nook and cranny of both popular and high culture. One may rationalize that compared to the magical thinking of the Middle Ages things are not so bad. But statistically speaking pseudoscientific beliefs are experiencing a revival in the late 20th century. A 1990 Gallup poll of 1,236 adult Americans show percentages of belief in the paranormal:
Astrology: 52% ESP: 46% Witches: 19% Aliens have landed on Earth: 22% The lost continent of Atlantis: 33% Dinosaurs and Humans Lived Simultaneously: 41% Noah’s flood: 65% Communication with the dead: 42% Ghosts: 35% Actually Had a Psychic Experience: 67%
Other popular beliefs of our time that have little to no veracity in evidence include: Dowsing, the Bermuda triangle, poltergeists, biorhythms, creationism, levitation, psychokinesis, astrology, ghosts, psychic detectives, UFOs, remote viewing, Kirlian auras, emotions in plants, life after death, monsters, graphology, crypto-zoology, clairvoyance, mediums, pyramid power, faith healing, Big Foot, psychic prospecting, haunted houses, perpetual motion machines, antigravity locations, and, amusingly, astrological birth control. Other polls show that these phenomena are not the quirky beliefs of a handful on the lunatic fringe. They are more pervasive than most of us like to think, and this is curious considering how far science has come since the Middle Ages.
btw, I see sodomy as the ideal form of birth control but not many women agree with me.
