宗教將在九個國家絕跡

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澳洲, 奧地利, 加拿大, 捷克, 芬蘭, 愛爾蘭, 荷蘭, 新西蘭, 瑞士
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) o: a) I+ a3 W- A' `: i+ S, [22 March 2011 Last updated at 03:31 ET Share this pageFacebookTwitter ShareEmail Print Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study saysBy Jason Palmer
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4 z3 W$ a. l4 W& Z6 W+ Z1 I0 bScience and technology reporter, BBC News, Dallas

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.
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$ U7 F% t8 L8 d$ J) vThe study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.
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The team\'s mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

3 o3 Y* b6 D# Y: T, W8 lThe result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.

. s6 s; M+ y5 n' y& N0 ]8 RThe 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.

: |. S- a) k5 S7 I* T, c; a2 hTheir 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.
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% [, D3 N2 m4 d$ Y; j# J. dOne 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.

. w% W) J% b9 \6 ?# t/ ]" \At its heart is the competition between speakers of different languages, and the \"utility\" of speaking one instead of another.
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\"The idea is pretty simple,\" said Richard Wiener of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, and the University of Arizona.

( h" h, r8 R$ @* A, ^\"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.

0 n1 ~5 n8 U- y! B3 w. j9 g\"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.\"
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0 k9 e# Y0 V, Q  F  lDr 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.

% u9 i4 a# `. s/ o7 `% OThey 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.
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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.

4 V, E0 M- ]* h8 u( `5 y* E; W\"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.

' n* g- r8 ~# w: i; z' X; ^5 l  HHowever, 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.
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( ]* F* Q; s7 T3 @, z\"Obviously much more complicated things are going on with any one individual, but maybe a lot of that averages out.\"

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基督教在大多数西方国家已经走向没落。现代基督教的发展主要是靠蒙骗落后的发展中国家。

Onesimus1970

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( N- {- r7 W8 A% B什么时候在加拿大绝迹? 我们好把宗版给关了.

路德使女

You don't need to close it, it will be expanding for ever.

historian

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不同意。人脑存在，宗教就存在。

tigerkiller

看来是在国内的时候，政治和哲学没学好。连事物的发展是螺旋式的都不知道。什么事物的发展都是有高潮有低潮。哪有直线式的。