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Originally Posted by Hugh
Wow! I wonder how all the people below bluffed their way through.....
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Mmmhm. There are a ton of factors that skew that, not least of which is what the baseline is. If the population were 90% Christian and only 70% of Nobel Prize winners identified themselves as Christian that would be a reverse correlation. Now look at surveys of education versus 'religiousity', Hugh.
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Nevertheless a poll of scientists in the United States by Pew Research Center indicated just 30% of scientists in that country identify as Christian, 20% as some form of Protestant and 10% as Catholic, with 41% believing neither in God nor a higher power.
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The United States is a highly religious nation, especially by comparison with most Western industrialized democracies. Most Americans profess a belief in God (83%), and 82% are affiliated with a religious tradition. Scientists are different. Just a third (33%) say they believe in God, while 18% say they believe in a universal spirit or higher power and 41% say they don’t believe in either.
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There are a ton of social reasons why, even up until recently, atheists and agnostics especially in the US though to a lesser extent here also, may have identified themselves as Christian.
With that in mind I will absolutely stand by my remark - the more educated a population are the lower the percentage of those who are religious. This isn't besmirching those who are religious, it's merely suggesting that non-belief is a perfectly rational point of view and one that can only be based on two things - rationalism or ignorance and it's a reach to think that the better educated are more ignorant than those less educated.
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Originally Posted by Russ
I said back to the topic. Infractions are next.
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Sorry - was a rebuttal to an earlier post. Will stop on that line now.