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| If you don't watch the Superbowl, you can always watch the Puppybowl You know how there are all those crazy Superbowl bets like how many minutes and seconds the National Anthem will last, or will there be a *wardrobe malfunction*. Well for this year there is one about how many times Ray Lewis will mention God (too many). It doesn't matter 'cause God WILL be there, period. Like I've said a million gazillion times sports IS religion and visa versa, religion IS sports. Now there is a survey to back that up. |
(I know, me and those kookie surveys) This time from the mighty Public Religion Research Institute comes the survey God On The Field. The first thing that stands out, to me, is that there is a discrepancy between the amount of peeps surveyed that believe God influences the outcome of games and the amount of peeps that believe God rewards athletes for having (correct) faith. At first blush...shouldn't the percentages be the same. Not according to this survey.
As you can see on the chart (above) on the left, not the Grumpy Cat picture on the right (I heart mehz some Grumpy Cat), 53% of those surveyed believe that God rewards athletes for having faith, but only 27% believe that God influences the outcome of games.
Despite the numbers, God is a factor...3 in 10 American people surveyed believe that God influences the outcome of games and over 50% believe that God rewards faithful athletes; but 100% of skeptics (not interviewed) believe that the outcome of games is decided by who the better team is on that day plus sometimes the ball bounces funny (1). Any skeptic worth their salt would choose Sabermetrics over God. That is the true nature of sports.
It doesn't take a statistician to see the obvious: if God rewards the faithful athletes, then the team with the most faithful athletes would win; but all teams have faithful athletes, so the numbers in the survey should be the same. Either the survey doesn't makes sense or the use of God as a factor doesn't makes sense.
This is where the faithful could insert what Micheal Shermer (and all other skeptics) calls gobbly-goop. This is where the faithful leaves behind the empirical evidence of crunching numbers in exchange for God works in mysterious ways, some of the athletes were not faithful enuff, all those that prayed didn't show enuff faith or the worst of the worst of gobbly-goop, prayer/faith doesn't work like that (2).
Hey now...do numbers alone determine the outcome of sporting events. (I've already said) No. There are many real world factors that, when added up at the end of the day after the really large lady has sung, determine the results of sporting events like the Superbowl; it's just that...God is not one of them.
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* Besides that, I have *faith* that the Forty Niner's will win this year. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..................
* Survey
* Press release
(1) Skeptics don't believe in luck because that implies karma. I guess I would define the ball sometimes bounces funny as Heisenburg and the Uncertainty Principle or there is difficulty in accurately predicting the outcome of something something. Luck doesn't exist.
(2) Either you know how the mind of God works or you don't know. You can't claim that sometimes you know but sometimes you don't know. It works all the time or none of the time. That excuse is a cop out.
* The questionnaire
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| Yes, there are cheerleaders for the Puppybowl. |
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