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To: allmendream

Well yes, but you won’t like them:

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Intelligence%20&%20religion.htm

Lots of sources there.

But it doesn’t really matter. No truth about anything (except the truth about what people say on a census) can be established on the basis of how many people believe something.

By the way, though I am an atheist, I find the statistics on the numbers of “anti-religious,” especially the “strongly anti-religious” very alarming. Totally disagreeing with something and being “anti-” something are totally different.

Hank


18 posted on 05/01/2008 1:00:20 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
I am in agreement that there is nothing as perplexing as an “evangelical” atheist. Why destroy someones faith? Do they also kick puppies in their spare time?

You are part of the U.S.A.’s most despised religious minority; although Atheists are overrepresented in the U.S. armed forces, and underrepresented in U.S. prisons, and have not shown a tendency to fly planes into skyscrapers.

I prefer my own source, it clearly states its methods and subject group, and it accurately reflects my own experiences. I knew plenty of University level and Professional Scientists, and around 2/3rds (or more)are people of faith (as the study suggested); I have never met (AFAIK) a member of the National Academy of Sciences (the group polled that showed that very few of “elite” Scientists are believers).

19 posted on 05/01/2008 1:15:13 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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