Tambah satu link lagi untuk direnungkan: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion
--- In [email protected], "Bukan Pedanda" <bukan.pedanda@...> wrote: > > > > Dan untuk jangka panjang agama itu pelan-pelan juga akan punah kok dari muka > bumi ini. > > Dimulai, menurut kajian ilmuwan, di sembilan negeri kafir. > > Yang masih percaya sekarang ini Allah tahayul, tuhan tahayul, dewa tahayul > atau hantu blau tahayul lain itu ada ya orang dungu kayak babi atau orang > yang alpa make logica aja. > > > --- > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197 > > BBC News Science & Environment > 22 March 2011 Last updated at 07:31 GMT > > Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says > Comments (403) > By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Dallas > > A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is > set for extinction, say researchers. > > The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation. > > The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between > the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one. > > The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, > indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries. > > The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries > in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, > Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand > and Switzerland. > > Their means of analysing the data invokes what is known as nonlinear dynamics > - a mathematical approach that has been used to explain a wide range of > physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part. > > One of the team, Daniel Abrams of Northwestern University, put forth a > similar model in 2003 to put a numerical basis behind the decline of > lesser-spoken world languages. > > At its heart is the competition between speakers of different languages, and > the "utility" of speaking one instead of another. > > "The idea is pretty simple," said Richard Wiener of the Research Corporation > for Science Advancement, and the University of Arizona. > > "It posits that social groups that have more members are going to be more > attractive to join, and it posits that social groups have a social status or > utility. > > "For example in languages, there can be greater utility or status in speaking > Spanish instead of [the dying language] Quechuan in Peru, and similarly > there's some kind of status or utility in being a member of a religion or > not." > > Dr Wiener continued: "In a large number of modern secular democracies, > there's been a trend that folk are identifying themselves as non-affiliated > with religion; in the Netherlands the number was 40%, and the highest we saw > was in the Czech Republic, where the number was 60%." > > The team then applied their nonlinear dynamics model, adjusting parameters > for the relative social and utilitarian merits of membership of the > "non-religious" category. > > They found, in a study published online, that those parameters were similar > across all the countries studied, suggesting that similar behaviour drives > the mathematics in all of them. > > And in all the countries, the indications were that religion was headed > toward extinction. > > However, Dr Wiener told the conference that the team was working to update > the model with a "network structure" more representative of the one at work > in the world. > > "Obviously we don't really believe this is the network structure of a modern > society, where each person is influenced equally by all the other people in > society," he said. > > However, he told BBC News that he thought it was "a suggestive result". > > "It's interesting that a fairly simple model captures the data, and if those > simple ideas are correct, it suggests where this might be going. > > "Obviously much more complicated things are going on with any one individual, > but maybe a lot of that averages out." > > BBC © 2011 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read > more. > > > --- In [email protected], "kim" <kimhook@> wrote: > > > > Ada baiknya, kalau kita menulis artikel, utk dijaga agar > > ada kelanjutan apa yang sudah kita tulis. Disekitar tahun > > 2003, mengirim tulisan ke "apakabar" tentang seorang teroris > > bermata biru, Richard Robert. Disebutkan waktu itu, dia > > sebagai mualaf, melakukan aksi teroris di Casablanca, Maroko. > > Sebuah cafe jadi target islam radikal. > > Pendek kata, dia masuk bui dan meringkuk di penjara Maroko. > > > > Delapan tahun kemudian, disebutkan, Richard Robert ini nye- > > sel setengah mati sudah terjerumus kedalam dunia teror Islam. > > > > Kemudian dia banting setir untuk kembali dibaptis utk jadi > > kresten lagi seperti semula, Katholik. Hanya setir balik ini > > menjadikan dia tidak aman lagi di sel bui. Dia diancam mati > > oleh bekas punakawan di tempat bui. > > > > Wanti-wanti dia: > > " Jangan lakukan apa yg telah saya alami ". Dia mengingat > > kan jika saja ada orang merasa tertarik utk masuk islam di > > karenakan islam radikal lagi nge-trend. > > > > Apa itu nge-trend yg dimaksud ? > > > > Bagi orang kebanyakan, ngetrend itu sejenis mode yang lagi > > melanda dunia. Jika dunia lagi dilanda model komunis, dimana- > > mana banyak anggota baru dan bangga sbg komunis. > > > > Demikian juga gerakan islam radikal, tak lebih tak kurang. > > Sejenis model spt itu dengan sendirinya akan punah sendiri, > > karena jalan spt itu hanya membawa orang menjadi sengsara. > > > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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