New Scientist magazine has an interesting article on atheism. The article is interesting on several fronts. The tag line at the front of the article implies that the majority of people think atheism, not theism, is odd. Oxford, to the surprise of no one as it is the home to Dawkins, is a leader in producing those who ascribe to atheism. While the Oxford numbers are of no surprise, the other numbers are. Read for yourself...
"And while a very small number of Britons typically label themselves as "atheist" or "agnostic" (most surveys put it at about 5 per cent), an astonishing 57.3 per cent of the Oxford sample did."
The article digs into the Enlightenment notion that the more educated we become the farther away we move from a belief in God. Apparently, statistics do not back that notion, thus the recent trend away from the factual and toward the narrative. The entire article is worth a read based on the paragraph below. Did you ever think you would see that paragraph is a serious science magazine? I did not. Enjoy!
"What we need now is a scientific study not of the theistic, but the atheistic mind. We need to discover why some people do not "get" the supernatural agency many cognitive scientists argue comes automatically to our brains. Is this capacity non-existent in the non-religious, or is it rerouted, undermined or overwritten - and under what conditions?"
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