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Frames three recurring inquiries: whether God exists, what God is, and why belief matters. Reports rising interest in spiritual growth, high self-identification as religious or “spiritual but not religious,” and widespread views of God as personal, loving, and active through miracles. Also outlines sociological, practical, and theological reasons surveys matter.","Looking at God through America’s eyes  \nBy George Gallup, Jr.   \nThroughout the ages there have been no morefunda  \nmental questions demanding responses than: “Is  \nthere a God?”“Who or what is this God?”“Why should people believe in this God?”  \nEvery human being, in varying ways and degrees, seeks to answer these questions. Their responses can be of profound significance for themselves and the societies in which they live.  \nSeeking God or meaning in life is the one thing that unites all people. “The great question of life,” writes Stephen D. Schwartz in TheIntellectualsSpeak Out About God,“iswhether it is ultimately meaningful or ultimately absurd…. Belief in God isnot one belief among others; it is basic, fundamental to theway one lives one’s life. It is away of looking at our being, and all of reality, namely as having a value and significance beyond what will be destroyed by death, or by cosmic forces.”  \nReading the“signs of the times” through scientific surveys, it would appear that these three questions about God (or a universal spirit) are being asked at this point in history with renewed purposefulness and intensity. The percentage of Americans who seek spiritual growth in their daily lives has soared to 85% . An upward trend is evident in those who say they have thought alot about their relationship to God, with 6 in 10 doing so today.  \nGrowing numbers, furthermore, say they have given alot of thought to developing their faith, as well as to the basic meaning and value of their lives.  \nThereis, in short, ample survey evidence to showanunprecedented search for spiritual mooringsin America today, andanever-growing hunger for God.“This impulse toknowand name God is beautiful,” writes Diedre Sullivan.  \nW  \nhen Americans think about spirituality, most of those surveyed consider it more ina personal and individual sense than in terms of organized reli-  \ngion and church doctrine. They may define itas“something beyond oneself;”“a sense of awe and mystery in the universe;”“seeking the inner self;”“reaching human potential;”“a mystical bond with other people;” or“a calmness in my life.”  \nGeorge Gallup, Jr. , is co-chairman, the Gallup Organization.  \n14 Public Perspective, May/June 2000  \nA recent Gallup Poll found 54% of Americans describing themselves as “religious” while 30% said they would define themselves as“spiritual but not religious.” Even 20% of those who said religion is very important in their daily lives defined themselves as spiritual but not religious. Furthermore, religious faith in America today appears to beakindofsmorgasbord affair, with people picking and choosing from various religious and spiritual movements that best serve them, individually.  \nWhy is it important to record through surveys the beliefs of populaceson these three questions? 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