What do you think about this new research about religion?

I've heard my physics professors talking about this. It's estimated that if it weren't for religion, da Vinci's contributions to science would've been made closer to Christ's era, and the discoveries of Einstein would've likely been made during the time of da Vinci. Who knows where'd we be today if it wasn't for the relentless blockading of truth and knowledge religion imposes.

The approach to looking at the survey material was to see how socioeconomic status, education, religious upbringing and other factors correlated with the drop in religious affiliation. This is a good time to talk about the difference between correlation and causation. The data from the survey shows a relationship between these factors and decreased religious affiliation, but not direct causation.Downey’s findings show that religious upbringing is the largest influence on religious affiliation. However a drop in religious upbringing starting in 1990, does not account for the entire drop of religious affiliation. According to the analysis, religious upbringing was important, but only explicated 25 percent of the drop.

Higher education at the college level also has a relationship with the drop in religiosity. But the study shows that rates of the college education from the 1980s to 2000s only went up a little under 10 percent (from 17.4 to 27.2). Statistically, this can only account for five percent of the drop.The internet, if you can believe it, has a much higher correlation than college education. According to the study, Internet use went from near zero percent in the 1980s, to 53 percent of the population spending up to two hours a week online in the 2000s. MIT Technology Review reports:This increase closely matches the decrease in religious affiliation. In fact, Downey calculates that it can account for about 25 percent of the drop.

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (MSG)

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.”

I wonder what those who worship science will say when they meet the Creator of science.

Only 7 per cent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God. Whilst only 3.3 per cent believed in God in the UK’s Royal Society.

It seems Christians think their god was not clever enough to use the big bang, evolution and science as his tools!

There are plenty of people for whom their religious beliefs and science are not mutually exclusive concepts - it is only those who take a narrow interpretation of biblical creation myths that run up against it.

If you are going to base a belief system on ignoring the facts, it is more than a little difficult to buy into a system literally based on facts. Either you go with the evidence or you make your own reality up.

Religion and science are only incompatible if one makes them so. Unfortunately, some (not all) religious people make them so.

what new research? I am not a religionist, I am a Christian. I don't care about research on religion, I will stick to the word of God as it is written, it is a personal and evidenced fact and confirmation to me.

OKAY, now that rant posts, it is the child's play of a silly heart. a whispering of satan for all dead in spirit to hearken to , works for them, and yall, not for me.

How stupid to say religion stops scientific growth, there are more Christian scientists, geologist, astrophysicist and biologist than atheist admit, just google or search it.

The problem is not Christians, it is our lazy youth in America who don't dare to dream, use creativity and imagination, or go outside away from the video game and tv and ipad to open up their minds to the possibilities of what we could do in this world, like the baby boomers, and kids of th 60's and 70's did. let's be fair about this and not whore after it because it is not the gospel. name some other reasons.

Judging by what I see here on R&S, it's a no brainer.

i still believe last years research statistics, its still above 90% of americans that believe in a God or Higher power.