(July 30, 2012 at 8:56 am)Faith No More Wrote: When I said this, I was specifically thinking about Rick Santorum's position that colleges are idoctrinations for the left, and his "statistic" that 62% of students that enter college with faith leave without it.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2...ida_au.php
The fact that he has a decent size following would mean that plenty of people agree. I know there are other examples out there. This one, however, was what I had in mind when I said that.
Wait, what? You're judging the proportion of people who agree with Santorum's claims regarding education by the proportion of people who support his candidacy for President?
I'd need more support before I'd make that inference. How do you know that Santorum's claims regarding education aren't incidental to his political platform? Even if it is a part of his platform, how can you reasonably estimate the proportion of his supporters who are partially motivated by that particular part of the platform?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
