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Is there a correlation between education level and religious belief?
This is a discussion on Is there a correlation between education level and religious belief? within the General Chat forums, part of the Main Category category; Anecdotally, it seems that more educated people are less likely to believe in God. Is this true? Is there empirical ...
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10-01-2009, 08:07 AM
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| Anecdotally, it seems that more educated people are less likely to believe in God. Is this true? Is there empirical evidence (statistical studies) that prove or disprove this? |
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10-01-2009, 09:11 PM
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|  the following Wikipedia article links some studies. Personally, I think that such a relation likely exists, but not due so much to greater intelligence of those without religion, but because a) academic institutions can be hostile toawrd people of faith, 2) non-religious people are more likely to seek divine purpose and meaning in academic pursuits, while religious people seek meaning from religious pursuits, and 3) intelligent/educated people are going to place more faith on the powers of human intellect than those who do not have such values. |
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10-03-2009, 03:45 PM
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| For me it's totaly the oposit as you are educated as you can sense that our world is a perfect think |
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