Cornwell and Stirrat study of the religious beliefes of the FRS

This elite society consists of exactly 1,074 Fellows of the Royal Society, all possesing an email adress. All where polled.
23% responded (good figure for this kind of study)
They were offered varios propositions for example: “i believe in a personal God, that is one who takes an interest in individuals, hears and answers prayers, is concerned with sin and transgressions and pass judgement.”
They were to choose from 1 (strong disagreement) to 7 (strong Agreement)

The trend correlated strongly with the much larger study of the US National Academy of Sciences
(CONTINUED)…..
The over wheliming majority of FRS, like the overwheliming majority of the US academicians, are athiests. Only 3.3 percent of the fellows afreed strongly (7) with the statement that a personal god exists. While 78.8 percent strongly disagreed (1).

If you define believers as those who chose 6 or 7 and unbelievers as a 1 or 2 on the scale, there were a massive 213 unbelievers and a mere 12 beliervers.

They also found in a seperate study that a small but signifcant tendency for biological snientists to be even more atheistic than physical scientist.

If you want the details and all the rest of their very exciting conclusions please refer to their own paper:
R. Elisabeth Cornwell and Michael Stirrat, manuscript in perparation, 2006
didjlord:

I am looking for intelligent and mature responses. That by far does not fit this critieria, infact just helps me concede the point. Please, if this is your attempt at converting me, you should be ashamed at such a feeble and lazy attempt.
dlin333:

Remember the extreme response was 7. The answers such as 6 and 5 were not as extreme, and would still classify themselves as believers.
seekfind:

Spiritual intelligence and Scientific intelligence are two different magiseria. Hence the use of NOMA. Scientific Intelligence is based on fact while spiritual is well not… rather its based on abstract and opinion of faith.