Atheist Ireland Forum

Reposted from his website:



You can find the links to the surveys here:
http://www.samharris.org/

If you know any dedicated Christians, please send them the links too - he is looking for their responses too.

I did survey's A and B. They're quite long winded at 100 questions each.

I'm doing one a day, that way it doesn't take too much time nor do you get lost in the relative similarity of many of the questions.

Just D to do and I'm done.

I would recommend that if you only do one, don't do A - everyone does that and considerably fewer do D

What the Hell! The American Constitution was first written in Chinese? Is that just to make sure I'm not a ChristianBot?

Some may be control questions to make sure you're not a bot or just filling out all of the answers randomly... or they might be to see if you are really really fucking ignorant like a lot of home schooled american fundamentalist christians.

I guess even t'internet needs some control questions to sort the wheat from the chaff!

Well, my take on these questions is they are trying to establish a base of questions which:

- everyone agrees is factually true
- only Christians say is true
- only atheists say is true
- some may agree is factually true, others may not (eg my hair is black)
- everyone agrees is false
- some agree is false based on belief
- some agree is unknown to them

It will be quite interesting to see what areas of the brain light up when people respond to certain questions. You can find the paper he co-authored called Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief, and Uncertainty here (about the 3rd down the list).

I think (if I understand correctly) that this is the next stage of tests following on from that paper.