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To: SirLinksalot
which said that 90 percent of the members of the National Academy of Science "consider themselves atheists."

Not quite what the survey found, but what's a little mis-speaking among friends ...

Disbelief in God and immortality among NAS biological scientists was 65.2% and 69.0%, respectively, and among NAS physical scientists it was 79.0% and 76.3%. Most of the rest were agnostics on both issues, with few believers. We found the highest percentage of belief among NAS mathematicians (14.3% in God, 15.0% in immortality). Biological scientists had the lowest rate of belief (5.5% in God, 7.1% in immortality), with physicists and astronomers slightly higher (7.5% in God, 7.5% in immortality).
-- Leading Scientists Still Reject God

Since if you're not an atheist, you allow for the possibility of a Mind or Intelligence behind nature, this puts 10 percent in the I.D. camp.

Or they can believe in a God -- and she let evolution run its course without continual tinkering with it.

71 posted on 04/15/2006 12:50:18 PM PDT by dread78645 (Evolution. A dying theory since 1859.)
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84 posted on 04/15/2006 12:56:23 PM PDT by dread78645 (Evolution. A dying theory since 1859.)
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