Reading a report on religious practice and science

[benlehman]

Reading a report on religious practice and science for a class presentation.

Interesting things:
* Around %50 of scientists at top-level American universities report having religious beliefs. Around %70 say that they have some "spirituality."

* The "hard sciences" report more religion than the "soft sciences" report more religion than the "social sciences." The least religious science is psychology. The most is chemistry.

* Scientists are less religious than the population as a whole. The only Christian denomination represented more among scientists than the population at large is "liberal protestant." Several minority religions are over-represented among scientists by 2-3x : Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus. If you consider Atheism a religion, it is also over-represented, about on the same scale as Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

I'd really like to see a cross-comparison by social class and income bracket, but the study didn't have one.

Comments

[graypawn.livejournal.com]

or Bill and Ted, "Be Excellent to one another."

everything you just said is awesome.

[moreocean.livejournal.com]

I would vote for Bill and Ted.

But don't short the nuances of religion. Our ancestors learned a lot of hard lessons and wrote about them.

"What comes up must come down," is enough gravitational theory for most situations.

But Newton is more wonderful.

And Einstein is really getting somewhere.