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.
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Larson, E., Witham, L. Scientists are still keeping the faith. Nature 386, 435–436 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/386435a0
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