[quote] Scientists in the social sciences are more likely to believe in
God and attend religious services than are scientists in the natural
sciences, according to a survey of 1,646 faculty members at elite
research universities by a Rice University sociologist. "Based on
previous research, we thought that social scientists would be less
likely to practice religion than natural scientists are, but our data
showed just the opposite," said Elaine Howard Ecklund, a postdoctoral
fellow in the Department of Sociology at Rice. She will present the
preliminary results of her study Aug. 14 at the annual meeting of the
Association for the Sociology of Religion in Philadelphia.
FROM http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/ru-nsa081105.php
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