bilby
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Who the fuck cares? That's not the question under discussion. The question is 'are scientists more or less likely than the general public to be atheists'?arithmetic said:800 Hindu scientists (59%) in India + 40 Christian scientists (27%) in the UK = 840
556 atheist scientists (41%) in India + 108 atheist scientists (73%) in the UK = 664
Now. Do atheist scientists outnumber theist scientists?
You really aren't cut out for the whole 'thinking' thing, are you?
Where the FUCK do you get these figures? '800 Hindu scientists in India' is very clearly nonsense. There are probably that many at the University of Mumbai alone, depending in exactly what criterion you choose to define someone as a 'scientist'.
Why do you only consider India and the UK? You have already been told that this cherry picking is unacceptable.
What, in the name of fuck, do you think you are doing here?
Theist scientists almost certainly outnumber atheist scientists - but that was never the question at issue.
The proportion of scientists who are atheists is greater than the proportion of non-scientists who are atheists. That's the claim being made. The mathematics to prove this claim are fairly simple; But they do not entail selecting just two countries and ignoring the rest of the world.
And they certainly don't entail the bizarre idea that your argument is supported by the fact that eight hundred and forty is greater than six hundred and sixty four.
And even if you do select just your preferred two nations, we can clearly see that there is no way for the statment that 'scientists are more likely than the general public to be atheists' to be false, either in India, or in the UK, or in the two countries combined.
And it's irrelevant to the value of theism anyway. Even if it wasn't true, it would in no way support theism of any kind. And for that matter, the fact that it is true in no way supports atheism. Atheism is demonstrably true, as a consequence of the Standard Model of particle physics, and it was therefore true long before anyone was an atheist, and will remain true even if every person on Earth were to convert to your favourite sect.
You are fractally wrong here. At every level, your position is laughably irrational and unsupported by facts or logic.
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