Erik said: > Yes, I think atheists are less than 10% in America (much less, I > think).
Let's suppose that they make up 10% of the population. Furthermore, let's assume that 90% of the atheists are smart and 10% stupid. Then if we pick a hundred representative people, we can expect one stupid atheist, nine smart atheists, 49 stupid theists and 41 smart theists. This means that if we pick a random atheist, we have a 90% chance of picking a smart one, but if we pick a random smart person, we have only a 21.9% chance of picking an atheist. In other words, about four out of five smart people are theists even if atheists are much smarter than average. Which shows that perhaps the Fool and Debbi could both be more or less right. Rich _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
