Well I’m sure most of you know that I’m not a fan of organized religion and found this article err rather interesting. 😉 While I do not really buy their argument it’s certainly refreshing to hear.

The paper – which was co-written with John Harvey, who does not report a university affiliation, and Helmuth Nyborg, of the University of Aarhus, Denmark – cites studies including a 1990s survey that found that only 7 per cent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God. A survey of fellows of the Royal Society found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God at a time when a poll reported that 68.5 per cent of the general UK population were believers.
Source: Times Higher Education