Re: An Open Letter to [Hammond]
From: bv_schornak (nowhere_at_schornak.de)
Date: 10/01/04
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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:21:48 +0000 (UTC)
Earle Jones wrote:
>*
>What if we surveyed the members of the National Academy of Sciences
>-- that represents some of the 'great' scientists. What would they
>say?
>
>Well, it's been done -- first in 1916, again in 1933 and most
>recently in 1998. Here are the results, as reported in NATURE:
>
>Leading Scientists Still Reject God
>
>Nature, Vol. 394, No. 6691, p. 313 (1998)
> Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
>
>Table 1 Comparison of survey answers among "greater" scientists
>
>Belief in personal God 1914 1933 1998
> Personal belief 27.7 15.0 7.0
> Personal disbelief 52.7 68.0 72.2
> Doubt or agnosticism 20.9 17.0 20.8
>
>
>Belief in human immortality 1914 1933 1998
> Personal belief 35.2 18.0 7.9
> Personal disbelief 25.4 53.0 76.7
> Doubt or agnosticism 43.7 29.0 23.3
>
>Figures are percentages.
>
>Details:
>
> "NATURE" SURVEY -- LESS AND LESS BELIEF
>
> 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 [Dr. James Leuba,
> Psychology Professor at Bryn Mawr University conducted the
> original study]. 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%.
>
> From "NATURE" 394, 313 (23 Jul 1998) Correspondence
>
>earle
>*
>
Looks like a Secular Trend in "disbelief". Maybe there's a hidden
connection to the Secular Trend in "human growth", leading to the
astonishing formula GOD != G_uv?
Greetings from Augsburg
Bernhard Schornak
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