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Pew Survey: A Huge God Gap Between Scientists and Other Americans

July 16, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

An eye-opening new Pew survey on science and religion reveals a huge God gap between scientists and other Americans. Eighty-three percent of Americans say that they believe in God, while just 33 percent of scientists do. Just 17 percent of Americans are religiously unaffiliated, while nearly three times as many scientists are.

The numbers are a testament to what an odd bird Francis Collins, the prominent geneticist and evanglical who is President Obama's nominee to run the National Institutes of Health, is.

This graph gives the full picture:

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So, please provide your proof that they DON'T exist. "OK...later."

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Just checking in to see if anyone has proven gods/easter bunny existence........no? ok, later.

Red John of CA 7:22PM June 28, 2010

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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