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FaRmLaNd on 18 March 2011
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Dr.Grass said:
FaRmLaNd said:
ManusJustus said:
FaRmLaNd said:

I think it may be a bit over the top to say that 90% scientists in certain scientific fields are atheists.

I'm just quoting studies I've come across.  Its not that suprising that fields like biology and physics would produce such high numbers of people with disbelief in God, since everything you know runs contrary to what the world's view of religion is.

Oh, I certainly agree. The same applies to what I've read about philosophers aswell. Its not just the sciences. I wonder what the rate would be in historians? I could see how a historian could easily become non-religious aswell considering the lack of reputable sources for most religions and outright contradictions with what secular sources say in many cases.


I think you are gravely mistaken.

Apart from what you might find if you actually look, here is the greatest philosopher of the last Millenium imo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiva_Goswami


Sorry, but one philosopher is irrelivant to what I was saying. There were plenty of great philosophers that were atheists or most likely were aswell, however thats not the point I was making. The point I was making is that I have read that a large number of philosophers are atheists or lean away from theism, just like in the sciences. Certainly more-so then in the general population.

http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl?affil=All respondents&areas0=0&areas_max=1&grain=coarse

Of note is this.

God: theism or atheism?

Accept or lean toward: atheism 2136 / 3226 (66.2%)
Accept or lean toward: theism 599 / 3226 (18.5%)
Other 491 / 3226 (15.2%)

"The PhilPapers Survey was a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views, carried out in November 2009. The Survey was taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and/or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students.

The PhilPapers Metasurvey was a concurrent survey of professional philosophers and others concerning their predictions of the results of the Survey. The Metasurvey was taken by 727 respondents including 438 professional philosophers and PhDs and 210 philosophy graduate students."