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It is logical that an atheist will look for something else to fill that slot in their belief system. Everyone has a belief system about the universe and our place in it. It's how we're made (some Christians call it the "God shaped hole in everyone's heart").
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Yeah although my point is more that this study could well have had a self-selecting group which renders it rather pointless.
I wouldn't be surprised if the religious people did have a poor understanding of science but that would actually be more reflective of the population as a whole, including those without a religion. People's understanding of the world in general is quite bad. If you did a general study of the UK, not weighting for religion, I think the results would be the same. I imagine we're looking at < 50% of people who could tell you have a volcano works, how earthquakes occur, what global warming is or how evolution actually happens.
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What we need, first of all, is some idea of how the authors of this study have defined "religious".
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The thing about everything having a 'life force' is the kind of thing people who are '
spiritual' but '
don't believe in, like, a god as such' would believe.