On Wed, 20 May 2026 19:03:27 -0700, John HarshmanIf the link to the WikiMedia file is followed a mention will be found of a few (fewer than I would have expected, possibly due to the 2000 cutoff date) Moslem, Buddhist and Hindu recipients. (Why Judeo-Christian above, rather than Abrahamist?)
<john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/20/26 11:25 AM, Martin Harran wrote:In what way?On Tue, 19 May 2026 10:09:23 -0700, Vincent Maycock>
<maycock@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Supernaturalism is just the>
opposite, and it seems to be a repository for weak minds who can't
figure nature out given the rules of the game.
From 1901 to 2000, just over 86% of Nobel Prize winners expressed
belief in the Judeo-Christian God with only 10.5% being atheists,
agnostics, and freethinkers. The figures are particularly striking in
science with religious believers accounting for 87% in Chemistry, 80%
in Physics and 86% in Medicine. The only discipline where atheists,
agnostics, and freethinkers have had significant impact is Literature
where they account for 35%.
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It seems like those "weak minds" are actually better than atheists at
iguring nature out given the rules of the game .
Poor use of statistics.
But it would help if you could show that theseWhat do you mean by "those fields as a whole"?
figures were significantly different (in your favored direction) from
the percentages for those fields as a whole.
>I don't know, maybe you should contact Shalev, the author.
Incidentally, were there no theists who weren't Christian or Jewish?
The file links to the study, which mentions 1 Neo-Pagan and 1 Shintoist laureate.
The study doesn't cite any sources.
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(Apparently based on Shalev, B. A. (2002). 100 years of Nobel prizes.
The Americas Group)
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alias Ernest Major
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