Indian scientists as religious |
More than half of Indian scientists self-identify as religious, and almost a third believe that religion and science can not only co-exist but be used to help each other, reveals a worldwide survey on how scientists view religion.While it is commonly assumed that most scientists are atheists, the global perspective resulting from the study shows that this is simply not the case. “More than half of scientists in India, Italy, Taiwan and Turkey self-identify as religious,” said the study’s principal investigator Elaine Howard Ecklund from Rice University in Houston.“And it is striking that approximately twice as many ‘convinced atheists’ exist in the general population of Hong Kong (55 percent) compared to the scientific community in this region (26 percent),” Ecklund noted .The researchers found that 39 percent of scientists in Hong Kong identify as religious compared to 20 percent of the general population of Hong Kong, and 54 percent of scientists in Taiwan identify as religious compared to 44 percent of the general population of Taiwan. When asked about terms of conflict between religion and science, Ecklund said that only a minority of scientists in each regional context believe that science and religion are in conflict.
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