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Message: [QUOTE="lne001, post: 2627994, member: 5473"] Not really. The more intelligent the scientist the less likely to believe in a comfortable delusion. "In the USA, while around 16% of the general population report no religious affiliation approximately 95% believe in God or some higher power (Gallup & Lindsay [URL='https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33#CR2']1999[/URL]); (Lugo [I]et al[/I][URL='https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33#CR10']2008[/URL]). [B]US scientists, however, are substantially less likely to hold belief in the supernatural (Larson and Witham [URL='https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33#CR5']1997[/URL]; Leuba [URL='https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33#CR8']1916[/URL]). Interestingly, this difference is far more evident among distinguished scientists: Larson and Witham ([URL='https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33#CR6']1998[/URL]) found that 92% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject a belief in God or higher power.[/B] Religiosity in Great Britain is less robust than in the US, with polls reporting only 42% believing in a personal God and 52% believing that God or some higher power had a hand in creating the universe (ICM Research [URL='https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33#CR4']2005[/URL]). What about British scientists? One thousand and seventy-four Fellows of the Royal Society of London were invited to participate in a survey of attitudes toward religion; 248 Fellows replied. They were asked about their beliefs in a personal God, the existence of a supernatural entity, consciousness surviving death, and whether religion and science occupy non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA). Overwhelmingly, the majority of Fellows affirmed strong opposition to the belief in a personal god, to the existence of a supernatural entity, and to consciousness after death." [/QUOTE]

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