Religion set for extinction in nine countries

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A meeting of the American Physical Society in Dallas, Texas reported that religion will all but die out altogether in nine countries.

A study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation. The team’s mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

A member of the study, Daniel Abrams of Northwestern University, put forth a similar model in 2003 to put a numerical basis behind the decline of lesser-spoken world languages. At its heart is the competition between speakers of different languages, and the “utility” of speaking one instead of another.

Richard Wiener of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement said:

“In a large number of modern secular democracies, there’s been a trend that folk are identifying themselves as non-affiliated with religion; in the Netherlands the number was 40%, and the highest we saw was in the Czech Republic, where the number was 60%.”

 

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Bob
11 years ago

I was interested and will have to do my own searching. The story failed to include the date the study published and in what publication? Assuming Mad Mike was not the author of the study, I would like to have seen a citation to the work he is referencing.

This is just sloppy.

p.s. The BBC is a little more informative – http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDsQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fscience-environment-12811197&ei=s22RUPDWGMGC2AWgnYBw&usg=AFQjCNHYJsWuERkbKgQo2ruH-YV0V7PBzA&cad=rja

BestestFriend
12 years ago

Richard Wiener. Richard. Wiener. I call Shenanigans! …Or someone had a really rough childhood.

jenny40
13 years ago

THese comments are wild!! Made me laugh.

Jess
13 years ago

Oh look, you gave me pictures of Jesus ponies to start my day thanks guys.

greenlight
13 years ago

That should mean that we’ll see fewer wars sometime in the near future as well, no?

13 years ago

GOOD! But not here. The non-existent invisible cloud being has spoken to the believer dummies and told them to remain in their imbecillien state and be proud of it. Of course they’ll do just that.

dp1053
Reply to  One Fly
13 years ago

AMEN! Look at it this way, when they all leave because of the rapture—we get all their stuff!

Michael John Scott
Reply to  dp1053
13 years ago

ROFLMAO Deb!!!!!

Jess
Reply to  dp1053
13 years ago

Take only the good stuff. I’m compiling a list post rapture of things we don’t want. That science experiment in the fridge, should probably be left alone. I’m just saying.

Reply to  dp1053
9 years ago

Ha! But because there is no Rapture, they’ll still be all here making up explanations why the Rapture didn’t happen.

Reply to  Reasonism
9 years ago

LOL..as they always do…

Michael John Scott
Reply to  One Fly
13 years ago

Yep. You know they’ll listen Tom. Praise the Cloud!

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