It has to go without saying (but maybe not) that one guy who is a famous biologist and also believes in God doesn't say anything about the likelihood of other biologists being believers or the compatibility of science and religious belief and a survey of evolutionary biologists' religious beliefs doesn't say much about the religious beliefs of scientists in general (but I was surprised that only 84% of evolutionary biologists are not religious persons and only 70% thought there was no evidence for a belief in God. I thought the percentages would be closer to the percentage of Michigan Militia members in the ACLU). Given the current cultural milieu and commonly accepted beliefs about science and religion, it is not even surprising to find that a smaller percentage of scientists have religious beliefs than the population at large. That percentage says less about any inherent incompatibility between the two approaches than it does about the current state of what many believe today about their incompatibility. The fact that the percentage of females in math and science careers is not evidence that being female is inherently incompatible with being a scientist. It is simply due to the way society is currently structured and the many subtle beliefs people hold about that incompatibility that lead to those differences. Rick Dr. Rick Froman Psychology Department Box 3055 John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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