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Thread #150071   Message #3548522
Posted By: Steve Shaw
13-Aug-13 - 07:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Hmm. Much as I'd love to loudly applaud such a finding, I have to clench my voluminous buttocks when I read stuff like this:

A 1916 study quoted in Zuckerman's paper (Leuba) found that, "58% of randomly selected scientists in the United States expressed disbelief in, or doubt regarding the existence of God; this proportion rose to nearly 70% for the most eminent scientists."

Maybe I should read the study, but the above sentence is just weasel words. "Randomly-selected", huh? "Disbelief in or doubt"? "Most eminent"? Sounds suspiciously like popular proto-gutter-science to me, though, as I say, perhaps I should read that study. I'm disinclined for some reason.