Title: The effects of Death Anxiety on belief.
Post by: Tank on March 31, 2011, 05:26:21 PM
Post by: Tank on March 31, 2011, 05:26:21 PM
Death Anxiety Prompts People to Believe in Intelligent Design, Reject Evolution, Study Suggests (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110330192201.htm)
I suggest reading the whole article before responding as there is more to this than meets the eye.
Link to the original research Death and Science: The Existential Underpinnings of Belief in Intelligent Design and Discomfort with Evolution (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017349)
QuoteScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2011) â€" Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) have found that people's death anxiety can influence them to support theories of intelligent design and reject evolutionary theory.
Existential anxiety also prompted people to report increased liking for Michael Behe, intelligent design's main proponent, and increased disliking for evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins...
I suggest reading the whole article before responding as there is more to this than meets the eye.
Link to the original research Death and Science: The Existential Underpinnings of Belief in Intelligent Design and Discomfort with Evolution (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017349)
Title: Re: The effects of Death Anxiety on belief.
Post by: JoeBobSmith on April 02, 2011, 09:22:03 AM
Post by: JoeBobSmith on April 02, 2011, 09:22:03 AM
i did read the article
Title: Re: The effects of Death Anxiety on belief.
Post by: Tank on April 02, 2011, 10:17:37 AM
Post by: Tank on April 02, 2011, 10:17:37 AM
Quote from: "JoeBobSmith"Tank, i take it you're one of the lucky one's who doesn't suffer from "death anxiety" to any extent?
i did read the article
So far no, I don't suffer from Death Anxiety, can't say that will be the case if I get any warning of the actual event though
