Assertions
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Assertions
# Assertion Subject Book
1. Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant about religion. Religion Religious Literacy
2. 90% of the members of Congress, by one report, consult their religious beliefs when voting on legislation. Religion Religious Literacy
3. Mr. McNamara says he belatedly concluded that the domino theory enunciated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and subscribed to by his three successors was wrong: The loss of South Vietnam never threatened to undermine the entire American position in Asia or to undercut United States credibility elsewhere.1 Government In Retrospect-The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
4. Materialism is now the dominant systematic ontology among philosophers and scientists, and there are currently no established alternative ontological views competing with it. Philosophy Contemporary Materialism: A Reader
5. Voters, as it turns out, invariably make judgments that are heavily based on their gut reactions and emotional factors. Politics The Political Brain
6. A 2005 poll found that 54% of adults in the US did not think human beings evolved from earlier species. Religion 40 Days and 40 Nights
7. “There is total agreement among the experts that evolution happened over millions of years, and that the apes are the group of animals out of which we evolved.” Evolution The Ascent of Mind
8. A study published in Nature (july 23, 1998) revealed that, of the membership of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, only 7% of its leading scientists believed in a personal God (in any form) and even fewer in the religious theories of "Creation Science" or "Intelligent Design." Religion Atheist Universe
9. "I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."--THOMAS EDISON (1847-1931), in Columbian magazine Religion Atheist Universe
10. There is not a single reference to a Jesus or to Jesus Christ written by any secular source who lived during the years in which Christ supposedly walked the earth. Religion Atheist Universe
11. Doubts about voter rationality are empirically justified. Government The Myth of the Rational Voter
12. ...without equivocation that throughout my three-plus decades of talk radio, the most vile, cruel and irrational emails and letters have come from people desperate to proclaim their status as devout Christians. [paraphased] Politics Somebody's Gotta Say It
13. Because light requires one year of time to travel one light-year of distance, our detection of these galaxies proves incontrovertibly that they existed billions of years ago. Religion Atheist Universe
14. George W. Bush: "None of us could envision the barbaric acts of these terrorists."[paraphased] Government Impeach Bush
15. The FBI was aware of a 1994 Algerian terrorists attempt to crash a hijacked plane into the Eiffel Tower. Government Impeach Bush
1. McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam; R. W. Apple Jr., NY Times, April 9, 1995
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