A recent survey conducted by the Harris Poll reveals that 42% of US adults are not "absolutely certain" there is a God compared to 34 percent who felt that way when asked the same question 3 years ago. 8% percent is statistically significant.
People are changing.
When questioned whether God is male or female, 36% of respondents said they think God is male, 37% said neither male nor female, and 10% said "both male and female." 1% percent think of God as a female.
As to whether God controls events on Earth, 29% believe he does, while 44% said God "observes but does not control what happens on Earth."
A recent Barna report noted that many US adults don't look at morality the way their fathers did.
There are large generational gaps in how people decide what is right and wrong.
Nearly half of all older adults said they view moral truth as absolute, but only 3 out of 10 Busters (born between 1964 & 1981) embraced the concept of absolute truth.
Two thirds of those over 40 said humans should determine what is right and wrong morally by examining God's principles; less than half of Busters felt this way.
Instead, nearly half of Busters said that ethics and morals are based on "what is right for the person," compared with just one-quarter of pre-Busters.
