[pdurrant]

This being my thousanth post, so I thought it only appropriate that it be a poll. What what could make a better poll topic than beliefs?

Multiple Choice. Try not to select self-contradictory items, unless your beliefs are self-contradictory!

For the purposes of this post:
Belief the conviction that something is very likely to be true. You don't need 100% certainty. 99% (or even 98%) will do.


Theism The belief that a supernatural intelligence created or controls the Universe and has interacted with humans within the past 10,000 years. (Or more than one.)
Deism As Theism, but without the interaction.
Atheism The belief that god(s) do not exist.
Life after Death The survival of the essence of a person ('soul') in a form that can still experience events, as a natural event.
Heaven A place of reward for good 'souls'
Hell A place of punishment for bad 'souls'
Reincarnation The re-birth of a 'soul' in a baby, such that at some point (perhaps between lives) the 'soul' remembers old lives.
Ghosts The 'souls' of dead people interacting with the world
Spiritualism The belief that the living can talk with the 'souls' of the dead.
Astrology The belief that the position of the planets in the solar system at the time of your birth, combined with the location of your birth, have some bearing on your subsequent life.
Alien Visitations The belief that beings from another planet (in our solar system or another) have visited the Earth in the past 100 years and made crop circles, or abducted people, or otherwise physically interacted with us.
Miracles The belief that god(s) or other supernatural powers interact with the world and cause physical changes that otherwise would not have happened.
Evolution The belief that different species have common ancestors, e.g. that horses and donkeys are both descended from a single species.
Human Evolution The belief that Humans and (say) Gorillas have a common ancestor. That one of your Greatx300,000 Grandfathers is the same individual creature as some Gorilla's GreatxN Grandfather.
Creationism The belief that the world was created within the last 10,000 years.
The Blue One next to the Fish I'm sure this requires no explanation.

Also, for the purposes of this poll, belief in a belief does not mean "Do you believe some people hold this belief" or "Do you believe there is such a belief" but should be read as "Do you share this belief". So, for example, if you are an atheist, you should not answer "yes" to the question "Do you believe in Theism", even though you do believe that Theism as a belief exists.