{"id":356,"date":"2007-12-05T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2007-12-05T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T14:16:09","slug":"americans-reveal-belief-in-ufos-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/05\/americans-reveal-belief-in-ufos-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans reveal belief in UFOs, witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"published\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/12\/05\/2109870.htm\">(ABC news.)\u00c2\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"published\">Posted <span class=\"timestamp\">Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:30am AEDT<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"first\">An overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God and significant numbers also think<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\"> that UFOs, the devil and ghosts exist, a poll has shown.<\/p>\n<p>The survey by Harris Online showed that 82 per cent of adult Americans believe in God and a slightly smaller percentage &#8211; 79 per cent &#8211; believe in miracles.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 per cent of the 2,455 adults surveyed between November 7 and 13 said they believed in heaven and angels, while more than 60 per cent said they believed in hell and the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Almost equal numbers said they believe in Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution (42 per cent) &#8211; the belief that populations evolve over time through natural selection &#8211; and creationism (39 per cent) &#8211; the theory that God created mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy per cent of Americans said they were very (21 per cent) or somewhat (49 per cent) religious, while around one-third of those polled also said they believe in UFOs, witches and astrology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ABC news.)\u00c2\u00a0 Posted Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:30am AEDT An overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God and significant numbers also think that UFOs, the devil and ghosts exist, a poll has shown. The survey by Harris Online showed that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/05\/americans-reveal-belief-in-ufos-witches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}