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Around 33% of American scientists believe in God. For scientists under 50 that percent goes up, albeit marginally, to 37-42%. Scientists who are Christian tend to be mainline Protestant or Catholic.
Mostly the percent of scientist who believe in God, from what I can tell, has been relatively stable for decades. Neither going up nor going down much. Although belief in God among scientists seems to have went through a fairly strong decrease from the 1870s to 1930s, which is perhaps unsurprising. In the age of Cantor, Godel, and Quantum Mechanics the kind of positivist certainties that once existed eroded a bit. I don't know if that's why, but most things I know indicate atheism kind of peaked at around 60-70% by WWII and plateaued at that level. (Current waves of frothing atheism I think are more a cultural reaction to Bush, Blair, and 9-11 rather than any real shake-up/shift among educated people and scientists)
Granted 33-42% might seem pretty skimpy, but it's pretty far from the zero that many seem to prefer. As for the battling Youtube videos unless we're going to break into folk-music videos or jazz that's not my thing.
I am going to be honest here. When I first saw this thread (and the OP's user name) I thought to myself "Oh brother, not another desperate theist".
However, I watched that video with eyes open (and mind open too) and I must say that the last 3 minutes of that video was ABSOLUTELY ON POINT!!! This video is not proof of a bible God (or any God) IMO. However, it does talk about the universe possibly being one consciousness (something I've believed for quite sometime now). This would explain why we often think of a person just before they call us on the phone. Or why some new fathers feel the symptoms of a pregnancy before they find out that their wife is actually pregnant.
Lecturers like David Wilcock talk in much detail about topics like this and I find some of his research quite interesting. At any rate, great video find OP!!!
This video is not proof of a bible God (or any God) IMO. However, it does talk about the universe possibly being one consciousness (something I've believed for quite sometime now). This would explain why we often think of a person just before they call us on the phone. Or why some new fathers feel the symptoms of a pregnancy before they find out that their wife is actually pregnant.
There are some very interesting phenomenon that have been discovered by physicists but I think it's a stretch to suggest that there is really evidence of a single consciousness that is controlling events for a purpose that would include the origins of human beings. To it's credit the video did at least accept the reality of the big bang and attempted to understand how the universe could have come into existence in such a manner that eventually life could have arisen from this seemingly chaotic beginning. This is a big improvement over some of the nonsense that's been presented on other threads about the mythological six day creation but it still doesn't prove there's a God (as you've admitted) and I just have the feeling that it's just another attempt to insert a supernatural being into the workings of nature that we still don't understand.
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