FaRmLaNd said:
Kasz216 said:
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.
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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.
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Not specifically at you, just in general.
I didn't say atheism, I said non-religion. Which of course would include atheism, deism, agnosticism, pantheism etc. And if such studies define atheism as "Not Christian" then they are of course extremely flawed.
I'm also well aware that many of your founding fathers were Deists, which wasn't surprising considering the Deistic concept of God was essentially the God of the enlightenment in many ways.
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You did say non-religion. My bad. We're basically in agreement then, though i'd like to see studies redone with the removal of the term "Personal God". With few studies actually doing that.
