• glorkon@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You presented the world of US science as the whole world of science. You pretended just because in America, 50% of scientists are religious, that would mean 50% of scientists in the entire world are religious, which is far from the truth. And you still refuse to accept that this renders your whole argument baseless. So stop wasting my time.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      You presented the argument that “religion has to be anti-science”. Finding a non-insignificant number of scientists that are religious disproves that. It does not matter where they came from, but here’s another study that polls 8 different countries:

      https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023116664353

      The lowest % that identifies with some religious affiliation is France at 30%. That’s significantly more than the 0% one would expect from your statement “Religion has to be anti-science” because if it was all religion that was anti-science you wouldn’t find any overlap at all.

      Edit: This is my fault. I’m trying to use studies and science to discredit someone’s firmly held personal beliefs. Something I just said is a waste of time.