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.
自本世纪初以来，人们就一直在争辩美国科学家的宗教信仰问题。
我们最新的调查发现，在顶尖自然科学家中，不信神的比例比以前都多－－几乎全都不信神。


感官功能用多了 忽略了灵性 可以理解

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 sample [1]. Leuba repeated his survey in somewhat different form 20 years later, and found that these percentages had increased to 67 and 85, respectively [2].
最早研究这个课题的是美国著名心理学家詹穆斯·H·路巴 (James H. Leuba)，他在1914年做了里程碑式的调查。他发现，在1000名随机选择的美国科学家中，有58％表示不相信或怀疑神的存在，在400名“大”科学家中，这个数字上升到了接近70％。20年后，路巴用有些不同的方式重复了调查，发现这两个数字分别上升到了67％和85％。


In 1996, we repeated Leuba's 1914 survey and reported our results in Nature [3]. 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.
在1996年，我们重复了路巴在1914年的调查，并向《自然》报告了我们的结果。我们发现，在1914年以来，美国科学家一般地没有多少变化，有60.7％表示不信或怀疑神的存在。今年（1998），我们很接近地模拟了路巴在1914年第二阶段的调查，调查那些“大”科学家的信仰，发现信神的比例是前所未有的低－－只有大约7％。


Leuba attributed the higher level of disbelief and doubt among "greater" scientists to their "superior knowledge, understanding, and experience" [3]. 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.
路巴把“大”科学家不信神或疑神的比例高的原因，归于他们具有“超级知识、理解和经验”。类似的，牛津大学科学家彼特·阿金斯(Peter Atkins)在评论我们1996的调查时说，“你很显然能够是一个科学家，并具有宗教信仰。但是由于科学和宗教的知识范畴是如此不合，我不认为在更深刻的意义上，你能够是一个真正的科学家。”这样的评论导致我们重复了路巴第二阶段的研究，对“大”和“小”科学家的宗教信仰做最新的比较。


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).
我们所选取的“大”科学家群体是美国科学院的成员。我们的调查发现，科学院的自然科学家几乎一致地否认超验事物的存在。不信神和不信永生的比例，在科学院生物学家中分别为65.2％和69.0％，在科学院物理学家中分别是79.0％和76.3％。剩下的人当中，大部分对这两个问题都持怀疑态度，很少有相信的。我们发现，科学院的数学家具有最高的信仰比例（14.3％信神，15.0％信永生）。生物学家具有最低的信仰比例（5.5％信神，7.1％信永生），物理学家和天文学家则稍微多了一些（7.5％信神，7.5％信永生）。


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生物学家具有最低的信仰比例（5.5％信神，7.1％信永生），物理学家和天文学家则稍微多了一些（7.5％信神，7.5％信永生）。

看来接受不同知识会对信仰的产生有不同的阻塞。

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我~顶，，，，呵呵！

是啊，因为人们知道神其实是个骗子后，许多人都觉醒了。基督教徒们现在正着手于修改圣经上的漏洞，以弥补被发现的谎言。

美国人都开始觉醒了，看来基督教的末日到了。令人欣慰啊。