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>>15237776
oh right the national academy of sciences poll meme

>in the survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences, half of the people replied and of those, 72% identified themselves as atheists, 21% identified as agnostics, and 7% identified themselves as believing in a god.

oh, they lumped the agnostics in with the athiests. so what was the question? 'do you believe in god?' no!

>I believe in a God in intellectual and effective communication with humankind, i.e., a God to whom one might pray in expectation of receiving an answer. By "answer", I mean more than the subjective psychological effects of prayer.

in that survey, anybody who thinks god has just one of the below qualities was considered an atheist
>deterministic
>actively communicated, but wasn't always clear
>didn't actively communicate
>non-sentient

really, it would have been more reasonable to extrapolate that the 7% who answered 'yes' were creationists.