| FaRmLaNd said: Its really just splitting hairs at this point. All the stats show non-religion being significantly higher in scientists then in the general population and the study I linked to about philosophy shows the same. I think its pretty obvious that that would be the case with most academic disciplines (not including theology!). Whether its higher or lower doesn't really matter that much, the point remains the same. |
If that's in regards to me, i'd mention I never said that wasn't the case. I was just claryfing the numbers, because when it comes to doing studies about finding whether or not people are atheists or not, western studies define atheist as "Not Christian."
Whether or not it would be the case with most academic disciplines though I'd say is vaguely undecided largely because the studies tend to focus on cases where you would expect atheism to be higher anyway.
A higher shift towards Deism, definitly... though that's basically always been the case. Look at the number of founding fathers that were Deists.
