You are... A believer

• Autores: Graham Lawton
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3103, 2016, pág. 29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Lawton discusses people's religious beliefs. The vast majority of people are religious, which generally entails belief in a supernatural entity or three. And yet amid the oceans of religiosity are archipelagos of non-belief. Accurate numbers are hard to come by, but even conservative estimates suggest that half a billion people around the world (and counting) are non-religious. Among the scientists who study the cognitive foundations of religious belief, there is a widespread consensus that atheism is only skin-deep. Scratch the surface of a non-believer and they'll find a writhing nest of superstition and quasi-religion.