Google| Subject | Re: Queen mother (of Britain) has died |
| From | Annatar |
| Date | 2002-04-10 19:46 (2002-04-10 19:46) |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Joy |
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JoyAnd other study showed that there is only a 7% believers
That's true, but there *are* scientists who think that believing in evolution would also take a leap of faith. A survey a couple years back showed that 40% of US scientists believe in God (45% don't, and 15% are agnostic)...
(http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/atheism1.htm)
" The follow-up study reported in "Nature" reveals that the rate of belief is lower than eight decades ago. The latest survey involved 517 members of the National Academy of Sciences; half replied. When queried about belief in "personal god," only 7% responded in the affirmative, while 72.2% expressed "personal disbelief," and 20.8% expressed "doubt or agnosticism." Belief in the concept of human immortality, i.e. life after death declined from the 35.2% measured in 1914 to just 7.9%. 76.7% reject the "human immortality" tenet, compared with 25.4% in 1914, and 23.2% claimed "doubt or agnosticism" on the question, compared with 43.7% in Leuba's original measurement. Again, though, the highest rate of belief in a god was found among mathematicians (14.3%), while the lowest was found among those in the life sciences fields -- only 5.5%."
And not evolution is not as improvable as creationism (that is absurd, except in its very weak version of a God that push the ball and let it roll). Evolution is not a theory. It's a FACT.
In the same spirit we could argue if the affirmation "Tolkien wrote LOTR" is as improvable as "Tolkien did not write LOTR" and then both affirmation have equal value.
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