02-16-2022, 08:26 AM
Hey all-
The link below, from a Pew survey done in 2009, adds some interesting details to the discussion. I'd like to see what an updated survey would reveal. (I think this may be the one you had referenced much earlier, Torkelburger).
Though I always take surveys with a rather large grain of salt, here it is:
https://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scie...nd-belief/
I find it interesting that older scientists express lesser belief in God or a "universal spirit" (bewildering term). Physicists seem to express the least belief.
Though the non-believers are always reflected as a minority %, I would hazard a guess that the "don't know/refused" group just flat out disregarded the survey, and would probably have increased the "don't believe" %.
I personally know scientists who are strong believers and those who are staunch atheists. All of them are good people, and that's what matters to me.
The link below, from a Pew survey done in 2009, adds some interesting details to the discussion. I'd like to see what an updated survey would reveal. (I think this may be the one you had referenced much earlier, Torkelburger).
Though I always take surveys with a rather large grain of salt, here it is:
https://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scie...nd-belief/
I find it interesting that older scientists express lesser belief in God or a "universal spirit" (bewildering term). Physicists seem to express the least belief.
Though the non-believers are always reflected as a minority %, I would hazard a guess that the "don't know/refused" group just flat out disregarded the survey, and would probably have increased the "don't believe" %.
I personally know scientists who are strong believers and those who are staunch atheists. All of them are good people, and that's what matters to me.