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In reply to the discussion: 73% of Protestant Pastors Reject the Theory of Evolution [View all]FarCenter
(19,429 posts)26. Most pastors are ignorant about science and many other practical subjects
Last edited Thu Jan 12, 2012, 07:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Most of the ones that I've met got a 40-year liberal arts degree and then went on to divinity school.
They may know a lot about being a pastor and about interacting with their parishoners, but they have very limited real-world experience, including essentially no scientific training. Most have no clue about the work life of the men in their congregation, except for the few that were employed in other occupations before the "call".
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Random protestant pastors are the Taliban of America? Even I would not go so far.
dmallind
Jan 2012
#14
Actually, that's just another analysis, though it does give more information than the other.
cbayer
Jan 2012
#9
It would be interesting to see the unweighted results and how they applied the weights - n/t
Jim__
Jan 2012
#19
No it's the website of the survey group - the source. This survey is not an outlier at all either.
dmallind
Jan 2012
#15
I maintain that the surveying organization had a vested interest in getting certain answers,
cbayer
Jan 2012
#17
Which may be the explanation for the discrepancy in this *poll* based on educational levels
cbayer
Jan 2012
#27
If you believe the Out of Africa theory of modern mans spread there was an Adam and Eve
Leontius
Jan 2012
#28