Mike the Mathematician- What would your fellow mathematicians call you?

Still no data for your claimed percentages, eh? figures. You did claim wiki was not allowed, right? 1998!!!

Please come back, the funny is intoxicating!

I did not dismiss anything from Pew out of hand. The Pew Forum on Religion has a pro-religion bias. Check-out Luis E. Lugo. What is more, they have been supporting, and now propagating the “faith-based initiatives” undermining civil social programs and receiving indirect government funding. Since the 1980s, the AAAS has become increasingly more accommodating to the new plutocracy via coziness with the K Street initiative mob. One needs to always be mindful of one’s sources.

Isn’t that quote from a credit card company?

You do know that posting under someone else’s name in an attempt to discredit them is just, well, typical, for a child. Good move there, slick.

Of course the more you use a name with a negative connotation, the more simple minded you appear, the more obvious it is for people to discredit you, and the more you prove my against those of you with faith. Smile, and peace. Keep up the excellent work.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Approximately_what_percentage_of_recognized_scientists_DO_NOT_believe_in_Creation

Happy Now???

That is not where I first learned of the two studies, mind you, I actually first heard of them prior to their publication during a conversation with some of my colleagues at the University of South Carolina, where I was a member of the faculty for nearly 23 years.

Mike, Mike, Mike, YOU dare cite a Religous web-site as your PROOF. You are sooo funny. Pew Forum? Really? That’s it??? Wow, cutting deep, man.

I am quoting from a study done by Elizabeth Cornwell and Michael Stirrat, who used a Likert-type seven-point scale. As a math guy, surely you are aware of this methodology. Just with the Fellows of the Royal Society; only 3.3 percent of the Fellows actually chose the statement that there is definately a personal god; while 78.8 indicated on the other end of the scale that there was NO evidence for belief in a god. The rest of the numbers added up the 95 – 5 ratio of non-believers to believers. I didn’t do the study, I only saw the results, but I am fairly confident in the results.

Just as I am confident in the Larson and Witham study from 1998 in which only 7 percent of those polled in the National Academy of Science indicated that there was a belief in a personal god.

Now, don’t get me started on the recent national study done on the effectiveness of prayer, that was done by a Religious Group, which showed that prayer does NOTHING for people who are sick, but in fact, found that the control group who KNEW they were being prayed for actually had MORE complications than those who did not know they were being prayed for and those who were not being prayed for. It was a double-blind study, you know about double-blind studies don’t you Mike.?