| The Ghost of RubangB said: A majority of scientists believe in G-d, but a vast vast majority of non-scientists believe in G-d. Scientists are more likely to be nonreligious than non-scientists, even though they are still most likely religious. But as akuma's article pointed out, nonreligious people are more likely to be attracted to careers in science. |
While true. I think this has less to do with religion itself as it does the way religion has been recently positioned against science by major figureheads of said religions.
After all at one point the opposite was true... seemingly every scientist was ridiculiously religious and was a scientist because they thought to themselves "How did god do it... how does what he do work."
The problem is a lot of people who said scientsits told how it worked were afraid because it didn't match up exactly with their particular religious scripts that even a majority of religious scholars don't take as literal.
The reason for this is fairly obvious in my mind. The shift from supporting science to stifling it happened right when the Church got it's power another ironic contradiction of the Dark Ages of Europe. With Rome gone... the Vatican eventually became the elected "treaty maker" and head of the Germanic nations version of the "UN." Such a power was addicting to the relgiious leaders who were used to not being the number 1 group when it came to both spirtual and natural authority. Such natural authority corrupted the leaders and as such literal interpretations have become more popular.
An ironic contradiction since the Dark Ages and fall of Rome are also seen as to what lead to Europe being the intellectual powerhouse it became overshadowing even that of the Arabs who freely encouraged learning.
Were not religion and science pitted as enmies by many... I believe it wouldn't be statistically different from the norm in large degrees.
