Failing the Great Commission

Consider:

• After 2,000 years, the majority of the world is still non-Christian.

• In many areas of the world, e.g., Asia, traditionalist Christians have preached variations on their doctrines for centuries, yet they’re still a tiny minority.

• In northern Africa, Islam was able to forcibly displace Christianity.

• Less than half the world believes in a "personal" God, according to worldwide Gallup International Millennium Survey (”GIMS”).

• Statistically, the more educated you are, the less likely you are to be religious, according to the GIMS, which says that:

Fifty-two percent of college graduates are religious as against 54 percent of people with a high school education and 70 percent of those who only complete primary school. …

The image of God as a person is more ingrained among the elderly and those with less educational background.  More educated people prefer the idea of the ‘’force'’ or flatly reject the notion of a superior being.

• According to a survey first done in 1916 and again in 1997, something like 60% of U.S. scientists don’t believe in God. This is noteworthy because, by training, community ethic, and peer pressure, scientists aspire not to dwell in the land of wishful thinking, but to face the facts squarely. (I also found a 2005 article about a survey reporting that it’s more like 38% of natural scientists who don’t believe in God.)

• For many teenagers, confirmation means no more pencils, no more books, no more church or Sunday school (OK, I’m not a poet).

Comments

[V Knutsen]

Colleges are also notably filled (i.e. tenured persons picking like tenured persons) with a higher percentage of persons who may not believe historic Christianity.

And surely since Darwin, his cousin Francis Galton, Huxley & others pushed the theory of evolution into a semi belief system, some accept the collegiate "package" which pushes past the bounds of scientific theories and hypotheses to say "there is no god".

However there are scientists who believe in God, and my husband is one of them. One physics student thought the beauty of some elaborate theorem he was working on demonstrated some aspect of the mind of Goed (along with his mind attempting to use and arrange these principles).

Again, this seems more like a subject for someone who is atheistic or agnostic. If I were to put belief in God up to a poll, I would not bother with church. Church would be a waste of time and space if God is not real.

PS there are various scientists (tho not all of Christian faith---of various faiths) who do think there is evidence of a Designer.