You can get 93% if you misread this table - http://www.stephenja...news/file002.html
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
That doesn't pass the smell test.
You can get 93% if you misread this table - http://www.stephenja...news/file002.html
HTH. Cheers, Scott. |
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So it should have been 72.2, right?
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Note the caveats.
The results are from those who agreed to respond to the questions - only 50-60% here. That may skew the results.
Our chosen group of "greater" scientists were members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Our survey found near universal rejection of the transcendent by NAS natural scientists. 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). Lumping the agnostics and "don't knows" in with the Atheists is wrong. If they wanted to be listed as atheists, they would have said so. (There are around 2200 members of the NAS.) One needs to be careful about drawing results from surveys. HTH. Cheers, Scott. |