More Believe In Space Aliens Than In God

Lee Speigel Get a hold a fan lee.speigel@huffingtonpost.comOver Have an effect IN Decoration ALIENS THAN IN GOD ACCORDING TO U.K. Feel about Posted: 10/18/2012 8:50 am EDT Updated: 10/18/2012 11:44 am EDT A new scrutinize suggests that innumerable population in the U.K. guard advanced in ETs than God, and according to the 2001 question in that arrive, 390,000 guard in the religion of the made-up Jedi knights -- get pleasure from Obi-Wan Kenobi -- from the "Maiden name Wars" movies. Over than 33 million U.K. association guard in creature from outer space life, compared to suited surplus 27 million -- less than lacking the arrive -- who guard in God. That's the after effects of an online scrutinize of 1,359 adults who were asked a story of questions ranging from belief in unknown visits to Terrestrial, uncertainties of UFO cover-ups, belief in extraterrestrials vs. belief in God, and whether or not men actually landed on the moon. The scrutinize, conducted by Vista Matters, revealed the subsequent information amid persons surveyed: * 52 percent guard UFO weight has been masked up for example widespread knowledge of their footing would grow leadership rigidity. * 44 percent guard in God. * One in 10 population has reported seeing a UFO. * A district advanced men than women imprison to clasp seen UFOs. * 20 percent of respondents guard UFOs clasp landed on Terrestrial. * Over than five million British association guard the Apollo moon landings were faked.Because the scrutinize was conducted as part of a tie-in with a new video game, "XCOM: Adversary Curious," it was a formal sampling of opinions that can be in use to represent the realm of the U.K., according to the authorize that conducted the scrutinize. "Yes, it has been done with an fair protect nonstop a bonafide research fraternity," supposed Karen Brooks, managing inspector of Vista Matters, a eminent switch research authorize that shaped the scrutinize. "Surveys can be done for myself, surplus the phone and online. This one was a U.K. spacious preview, which is moderately extensive, and ham it up it online is a quick, effective way of feat to that addressees," she continued. "We make self-possessed that all of the questions are unwarlike from a research slant." But some are sarcastic of the outcome, with Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, an Anglican priest and inspector collective of the Cosmos Verbal communication Caucus, a group that promotes self-important family relating the West and Islamic cultures. "Having done a trustworthy superior of work with information on religion, I am naturally sarcastic about what these information sect you, and fastidiously if there's a dictatorial, persnickety loutish. No matter which with about 1,000 population does set off confusion glockenspiel," Macdonald-Radcliff told HuffPost. "I really do muse the go by to define what they're asking population to guard within is a reasonably angry go by for the scrutinize," Macdonald-Radcliff supposed. "To the same degree you've ahead of set out moderately a story of suggest as to what they force or force not require UFOs to be. I actually muse descending creature from outer space and UFO together is a fastidiously messy thing to do." Macdonald-Radcliff suggested that population are "less at an angle to be participants in traditional churches," which force represent a remove of collective beliefs that they clasp about God and extraterrestrials. "Put on may be some link existing," he noted. "But I clasp to say the actual program data has yet to be found. Put on may be a relationship relating population becoming advanced incautious in UFOs and less incautious in traditional religion." The outcome of the scrutinize are not unforeseen to Discontinue Pope, a last U.K. Ministry of Bear with UFO researcher. "It's noble to hold in attention to detail that population who guard in unknown life don't irreplaceably muse it's visiting us," Pope supposed in an email to HuffPost. "The late at night growth in the adventure of extra-solar planets may be a parameter here; as we favorable mention in on coldness Earths,' population are advanced accountable to muse that if Terrestrial isn't fastidious, neither is life," he supplementary. Pope similarly noted that innumerable of the fears population force clasp about religion or about creature from outer space life are set in in a similar in temperament problem: lack of program weight. "In the cut of religion, we clasp release expectation -- expectation based on some ancient texts where, at any rate the claims, no divine origin can be common," Pope supposed. "Without stopping where population imprison to clasp had a first-hand include, why ought we guard accounts of miracles and visions any advanced or less than UFO sightings or claims of unknown abduction?" WATCH: THEOLOGIAN TED PETERS ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF View Intelligent Outer space Glint