I'd be interested on the average age of the 1000 sample used in the survey.
I suspect those of my generation will have a belief based on the history of the time as well as a Christian based religious education in the 50's/60's.Mind I did obtain an RE O'level and the RE prize in year 11.
Even as an atheist I know that Jesus existed because there is historical evidence that he did.
The trouble is that in the present time History in schools does not concentrate on that particular time in world history.In fact the present generations probably know more about WW1 and WW11 than anything further back than the industrial revolution.
I remember doing Bronze age history as well as Roman history but all the pre Roman stuff has completely disappeared off the syllabus and even Roman history has been reduced in content.
So if the average age was less than say 20-25 I would not be surprised at the findings.
