It is becoming a real bore having to correct/educate every bubbling believer new to the forum, attempting to punt “science” or “a great number of scientists” as proving and supporting their religious cause. Either they don’t have the facts or are simply lying in support of their dogma. Even worse are the pretenders offering quote mined arguments or statements from unknown, discredited or outdated “scientists” in support of their claims, often offering an article or opinion expressed by someone in a magazine or web page as “fresh evidence” disproving long established scientific fact. Or attempting to discredit science based on the delusional and juvenile belief that “disproving” science would somehow “prove” or lend credibility to their unproven and un-provable dogma.
Without going into the merits of individual arguments, I am simply setting the record straight as to what the statistical position with regards to science is.
93% of the prestigious and authoritative American Academy of Scientists are non-believers.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html
There are a number surveys which back up these figures.
Statistics for the US General population show that less than 2% are atheists and that 15% claim no religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism
There are also a number of other surveys confirming these figure
These statistics show beyond doubt, that with 93% of US scientists rejecting religious dogma and with 85% of the general population supporting religious dogma or some form of belief, that religion is a primitive dogma NOT supported by science, but supported and spread by the scientifically uneducated, the stupid and the gullible.
It is therefore clear that anyone claiming “scientific” or “massive” scientific support for their religious dogma or position is ignorant, lying, or both. These “arguments” are propagated by a tiny percentage of pretentious nobodies in the scientific world, or laymen pretending to be scientists who in turn are promoted loudly by themselves, clerics and their scientifically uneducated supporters.
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