작년에 한번 제가 Atheist란 제목으로 한번 올렸던 자료인데...

기독경을 강도 높게 까는건 아니지만, 그래도 살짝 비꼬고 있기 때문에....

제목을 바꿔서 다시 한번 올려봅니다...

 

참고로 아래 번역은 제가 한게 아니라, 디씨에서 어떤 분이 해주신걸 무단(죄송합니다...;;) 도용한겁니다....;;;

(그래도 듣기는 필요없으니, 화면만 봐도 무방합니다.... 나오는 글도 많지 않구요....)

 

 

덧붙여, 이 동영상을 보구,

"그래도, 과학자 중에는 사막잡신을 믿는 사람들이 더 많아"라고 헛소리를 씨부리는 사막잡신교 신자들을 위해

그들의 세뇌된 영혼을 바로잡아줄 1998년 네이처지 통계자료(영어라 죄송;;;;)를 첨부합니다....

그런 헛소리 하는 사람들 보면, 아래 자료 인용하시면서, 사뿐히 밟아주시기를...

 

 

번역은 못했지만, 요점만 적으면, 1998년 조사에 따르면, 미국 과학자들의 70~80%는 사막잡신을 믿지 않는다는 거구...

 

더군다나, 아래 1998년 네이처지 조사에는 나오지 않은 거지만.... (예전거니....)

영국 과학자들과 미국 과학자들에 대한 최근 조사 통계(리처드 도킨스씨의 God Delusion에 언급되어 있죠...)에 따르면,

요즘에는 과학자들 중 90% 정도가 사막잡신을 믿지 않는다고 하네요....

 

 

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네이처 원본 자료는 아래 사이트에서 확인 가능, but 공짜가 아니라, 외부인증이 필요;;;;

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0_fs.html

 

못보시는 분들을 위해 제가 걍 퍼옴...

 

Nature 394, 313 (23 July 1998); doi:10.1038/28478


Leading scientists still reject God



Sir – The question of religious belief among US scientists has been debated since early in the century. Our latest survey finds that, among the top natural scientists, disbelief is greater than ever — almost total.

Research on this topic began with the eminent US psychologist James H. Leuba and his landmark survey of 1914. He found that 58% of 1,000 randomly selected US scientists expressed disbelief or doubt in the existence of God, and that this figure rose to near 70% among the 400 "greater" scientists within his sample1. Leuba repeated his survey in somewhat different form 20 years later, and found that these percentages had increased to 67 and 85, respectively2.

In 1996, we repeated Leuba's 1914 survey and reported our results in Nature3. We found little change from 1914 for American scientists generally, with 60.7% expressing disbelief or doubt. This year, we closely imitated the second phase of Leuba's 1914 survey to gauge belief among "greater" scientists, and find the rate of belief lower than ever — a mere 7% of respondents.

Leuba attributed the higher level of disbelief and doubt among "greater" scientists to their "superior knowledge, understanding, and experience"2. Similarly, Oxford University scientist Peter Atkins commented on our 1996 survey, "You clearly can be a scientist and have religious beliefs. But I don't think you can be a real scientist in the deepest sense of the word because they are such alien categories of knowledge."4 Such comments led us to repeat the second phase of Leuba's study for an up-to-date comparison of the religious beliefs of "greater" and "lesser" scientists.

Our chosen group of "greater" scientists were members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Our survey found near universal rejection of the transcendent by NAS natural scientists. Disbelief in God and immortality among NAS biological scientists was 65.2% and 69.0%, respectively, and among NAS physical scientists it was 79.0% and 76.3%. Most of the rest were agnostics on both issues, with few believers. We found the highest percentage of belief among NAS mathematicians (14.3% in God, 15.0% in immortality). Biological scientists had the lowest rate of belief (5.5% in God, 7.1% in immortality), with physicists and astronomers slightly higher (7.5% in God, 7.5% in immortality). Overall comparison figures for the 1914, 1933 and 1998 surveys appear in Table 1.

Repeating Leuba's methods presented challenges. For his general surveys, he randomly polled scientists listed in the standard reference work, American Men of Science (AMS). We used the current edition. In Leuba's day, AMS editors designated the "great scientists" among their entries, and Leuba used these to identify his "greater" scientists1,2. The AMS no longer makes these designations, so we chose as our "greater" scientists members of the NAS, a status that once assured designation as "great scientists" in the early AMS. Our method surely generated a more elite sample than Leuba's method, which (if the quoted comments by Leuba and Atkins are correct) may explain the extremely low level of belief among our respondents.

For the 1914 survey, Leuba mailed his brief questionnaire to a random sample of 400 AMS "great scientists". It asked about the respondent's belief in "a God in intellectual and affective communication with humankind" and in "personal immortality". Respondents had the options of affirming belief, disbelief or agnosticism on each question1. Our survey contained precisely the same questions and also asked for anonymous responses.

Leuba sent the 1914 survey to 400 "biological and physical scientists", with the latter group including mathematicians as well as physicists and astronomers1. Because of the relatively small size of NAS membership, we sent our survey to all 517 NAS members in those core disciplines. Leuba obtained a return rate of about 70% in 1914 and more than 75% in 1933 whereas our returns stood at about 60% for the 1996 survey and slightly over 50% from NAS members1,2.

As we compiled our findings, the NAS issued a booklet encouraging the teaching of evolution in public schools, an ongoing source of friction between the scientific community and some conservative Christians in the United States. The booklet assures readers, "Whether God exists or not is a question about which science is neutral"5. NAS president Bruce Alberts said: "There are many very outstanding members of this academy who are very religious people, people who believe in evolution, many of them biologists." Our survey suggests otherwise.

Edward J. Larson
Department of History, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-6012, USA
e-mail: edlarson@uga.edu

Larry Witham
3816 Lansdale Court, Burtonsville, Maryland 20866, USA



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