beer wrote on Dec 5
th, 2015 at 3:41pm:
Hopefully, more old & religious people pass the way to their heaven. Leave ratio of independent smart people grows 10% higher.
So Old people are not smart people? Or religious people are not smart people?
A new study from Rice University-
'“No one today can deny that there is a popular ‘warfare’ framing between science and religion,” said the study’s principal investigator, Elaine Howard Ecklund, founding director of Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program and the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences. “This is a war of words fueled by scientists, religious people and those in between.”
The study’s results challenge longstanding assumptions about the science-faith interface. While it is commonly assumed that most scientists are atheists, the global perspective resulting from the study shows that this is simply not the case.
“More than half of scientists in India, Italy, Taiwan and Turkey self-identify as religious,” Ecklund said. “And it’s striking that approximately twice as many ‘convinced atheists’ exist in the general population of Hong Kong, for example, (55 percent) compared with the scientific community in this region (26 percent).” '
http://news.rice.edu/2015/12/03/first-worldwide-survey-of-religion-and-science-n...