debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) (11/16/83)
>I have the impression that the more educated someone is the >less likely they are to be religious (in the sense of being >"true believers" not religion-as-social-club). My experience indicates that there really needn't be any significant degree of correlation between "being educated" and "being religious". I don't think "education" in the conventional sense (the metric of which is book learning, college degrees etc.) necessarily implies wisdom or maturity (which I - with all the usual disclaimers - tend to equate loosely with open-mindedness). I've seen many "educated" people who were also very closed-minded - they were "true believers", all of them: some in Science, some in religion. They all seemed equally "religious" to me, whether or not they were theistic. Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook ...philabs!sbcs!debray --