Indeed. Many people go to church only for weddings and funerals, never read the bible, couldn't list the ten commandments, but at census time will scratch their head and write whatever religion they kind-of follow. The serious members of that religion will quite happily count these people among their followers when it comes to politicking.

Well, unions and other social and political movements do the same. We just have to remember that when we look at numbers like these.

Hall of Fame material. Well said.

Other studies concur with that trend. Mainline protestant religions suffer some of the largest losses to evangelicals. Presbyterians are often listed as one with greatest losses. Surprisingly, Catholics also tend to lose less to evangelicals even though the number of new priests is dropping in major numbers. I believe an average age of a Catholic priest is somewhere above 60.

View the curriculum taught in an evangelical college. Heavy in communication and other courses to teach, for example, how to influence people with the 'right' facial expressions. Most advanced math appears to to be high school algebra or what is called 'business math'. Science is rarely found. Without those two disciplines, then one is rarely going to ask damning questions. And often knows that observation alone is sufficient to know a fact.

Anyone that knows something only from observation is typically a junk scientist (not to be confused with a Christian Scientist).