why is it that the more educated you are in science the less you believe in a...

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...personal god or afterlife? members of the U.S. National Academy of Science, only 7.0% of whom believed in a personal god or afterlife as compared with more than 85% of the general U.S. population

these are the top scientists in the world

- StephenJayGould.org

In the same year Frank Sulloway of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Shermer of California State University conducted a study which found in their polling sample of "credentialed" U.S. adults (12% had Ph.Ds and 62% were college graduates) 64% believed in God, and there was a correlation indicating that religious conviction diminished with education level

-How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God. New York: William H Freeman

An inverse correlation between religiosity and intelligence has been found by 39 studies carried out between 1927 and 2002, according to an article in Mensa Magazine

These findings broadly agree with a 1958 statistical meta-analysis by Professor Michael Argyle of the University of Oxford. He analyzed seven research studies that had investigated correlation between attitude to religion and measured intelligence among school and college students from the U.S
 
Scientists need proof that something exists before they'll believe it. Since there's no scientific way that they can prove that gods or the afterlife exist, they do not believe that it can be true.
 
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