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Will Religion Soon Become Extinct in nine countries?


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With this headline….

Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says

….flying around the Interweb courtesy of the BBC, Joe Carter over at First Things gives this garbage the treatment it so richly deserves.

 

Posted by Stuart James
 

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  1. Stuart, I missed this one so thanks to you and Christopher at Christopher’s Apologies. I don’t mean to brag, only righteously smackdown, but my husband is at the top of his field in human behavioral applied mathematical modelling and I had him look at this paper that Joe covered. I know a thing or two about analysis of interacting things. Please check out my blog tomorrow for the smackdown…and see today’s posting as well for a “thank-you.”

  2. [...] Apologies and he and his wife point out that the researchers had a predetermined conclusion.  Stuart at Theology in the News mentioned it and linked to Joe Carter’s article via Rod Dreher at [...]

  3. [...] The following cross-post by Stacey – Accepting Abundance – is in response to a recent BBC article entitled: ‘Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says‘, which I posted about yesterday: [...]

  4. [...] Apologies and he and his wife point out that the researchers had a predetermined conclusion.  Stuart at Theology in the News mentioned it and linked to Joe Carter’s article via Rod Dreher at [...]

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