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"The question was there and simple. Do you believe in God. Some 59% of biologists asked if they believed in God marked “Yes”. Thus a majority of biologists believed in God. A majority of scientists believe in God.

Meaningless statements (as I noted in my previous posts above) unless further questions are asked, such as, "please define the god in which you believe." Jihadists believe in "god", they know him as "Allah".

"It is a creationist myth that scientists are atheists and that science is the domain of atheism. Thus their overall ignorance of the methodology of and findings of science."

There are fundamentalist "literalists" on both sides of the equation.

"The less educated someone is the more likely they are to be a creationist."

"Mis-educated", and "mis-informed" are more correct terms that would apply to most and render them innocent. Of course, some are "willfully ignorant" for various reasons. They won't be held guiltless.

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth, About Everything

"...There are, of course, modern, deviant forms of Christianity that reject evolution, but these turn out to be much more similar to materialistic science, not in terms of content, of course, but in the form of thought.

"We are not a participant in this battle, since it is really between two forms of flatland literalism which can only account for creation with recourse to magic -- the magic of "it just happened" vs. the magic of "God made it all happen."

"The latter is, of course, closer to ultimate truth, but this is little consolation once we remember that it is also what the Mohammedans believe -- that God is responsible for everylittlething that happens, with no mediation by anything else, from physical law to human free will. So in either case -- the false religion of scientism or the bogus science of religionism -- we end up with man stripped of his innate dignity, and a man without intrinsic dignity is not a man. ...."

"...one thing that was different about the past is that people were unaware of other religious traditions, let alone science. Therefore, they lived in a kind of "innocence" (which literally means "without knowledge") that is impossible for us. ....This is why I [am] hesitant to "join a church," for fear that one would actually be turning away from spirituality and toward the world. Certainly this is the problem with "fundamentalism," which is mostly worldly (in a naive, or worse, sometimes cunning sense) and materialistic. It is definitely a response to the abnormal conditions of modernity, and therefore itself abnormal."