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Nature 386, 435-436 (3 April 1997) | doi:10.1038/386435a0

Scientists are still keeping the faith

Edward J. Larson & Larry Witham

  1. Department of History, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA, and at the Discovery Institute, 1201 Third Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA (e-mail: edlarson@uga.cc.uga.edu).
  2. 3816 Lansdale Court, Burtonsville, Maryland 20866, USA.
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Although the suggestion eighty years ago that four in ten scientists did not believe in God or an afterlife was astounding to contemporaries, the fact that so many scientists believe in God today is equally surprising.