by juandefiero 375 Replies latest jw friends
Only 7% of members of the American National Academy of Scientists believe in god.
Your graph shows that 33% of Scientists "Who believe in God", and 7% "Don't know/Refused (VOL.)", or am I reading it wrong. (I read a lot, but don't comment - I know, hard to believe.) I'm just giving you a heads-up.
It's hard for me to believe that any scientist believes in g-d. Does . not . compute.
Scientists do not "understand reality better" than other people. This is your fundamental error - SBF
Scientists are also normal humans just like the rest of the population.
In addition they also have the knowledge that science adds to their everyday experience.
It isn't an either-or. That is your "fundamental error".
With that combination of life experience we all have PLUS their knowledge of science, scientists are far less likely to believe in god.
Among the NAS that figure is only 7%.
or am I reading it wrong. - Talesin
Yes you are. The 7% figure refers to the NAS and comes from a different study
Yes different perspectives add to one another. What is problematic is the view that a chemical account of the river Thames is in any meaningful sense more "real" than an historical account for example, or a painting, or whatever other perspective. They are all real. That is why the comment that scientists have "a better understanding of reality" is ignorant and stupid.
Yes you are. The 7% figure refers to the NAS and comes from a different study.
Okayyyy..... that is no explanation, not how the bar graph reads, but I have no horse in this race.
Here's another done again by the Pew Research group that show 51% of scientists believe in God. So there's that.
This is from the LA Times. Shows the same that 51% belive in a higher power or some sort of God.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/24/opinion/la-oe-masci24-2009nov24
Intersting article. Chemists seem to believe in God the most for some strange reason.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ehe/doc/Ecklund_SocialProblems_54_2.pdf
