Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says


A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.

The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.

The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.

The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

Their means of analysing the data invokes what is known as nonlinear dynamics - a mathematical approach that has been used to explain a wide range of physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part.

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1 comment:

~Chris said...

Every nation mentioned contains large populations decended from the dispersed of the lost tribes of Israel (beyond just the jewish people). These nations were actually founded by them. If we open our minds to the truth of this, we’ll begin to understand why the decline exists.

Romans 11:25
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Luke 18:8
… Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”

The rising morning star