Monday, February 3, 2020

Creation Moment 2/4/2020 - 1st Study of Bias in Science against Creationist Christians

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18

"A paper by Barnes et al. published on January 29th in PLoS One is the first research study that appears to attempt to find out why scientists and academics are biased against Christians, specifically Creationists.
 
This new study evaluated here begins by acknowledging that “Christians are one of the most underrepresented groups in science, and one potential explanation is that scientists have a bias against Christian students, which could discourage, and actively prevent, Christian students from becoming scientists.”

Invariably, some dubious reasons for the disparity are given, such as Christians are less intelligent or less likely to think analytically. The support of this claim was one study that found only a modest negative correlational relationship among self-identified atheists (N = 133) who scored 18.7% higher than religiously affiliated individuals.
It is true that 48% of non-college educated respondents, compared to only 23% with a college degree, accept the belief that “God created man in his present form.”
This, though, has a lot to do with college indoctrination and censorship."
by Jerry Bergman, PhD