(September 27, 2013 at 12:05 pm)Drich Wrote: I see you were confused by the table allow me to paste the first line of the wiki page for you:But further down the page, in the notes, it says:
Quote:Nonreligious includes agnostic, atheist, secular humanist, and people answering 'none' or no religious preference. Half of this group is theistic but nonreligious. According to a 2012 study by Gallup International "59% of the world said that they think of themselves as religious person [sic], 23% think of themselves as not religious whereas 13% think of themselves as convinced atheists".Now you're looking at 13% being atheists and 36% claiming not to be religious and a total of 41% not professing to be religious. That's a slight bit more than 2.01%.
Drich Wrote:Lets give you the benfit of the doubt, and say 1/2 do. then what? that still leaves 1/3 of the world's population as being High functioning 'delousional' people.It's a lot less in light of the second set of statistics.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
