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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2 u/ f: b" S5 K- ]7 a3 h+ x1 Yhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197
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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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Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Dallas

1 W6 U  k$ `: E7 N  UA study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.

The 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.
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) V# P3 x/ O4 _9 f  FThe result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.

) o+ H% x& l  TThe 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.
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" N4 T% H4 r  Q1 p% vTheir 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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One 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.
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9 t( f  t: |; p$ o4 xAt 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.

$ n2 L4 t9 H6 I( w. p\"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.

\"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.\"

: j1 X. Q% N1 Q6 K/ `7 WDr 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%.\"

7 s- o2 h& y" @" n" a/ [4 nThe team then applied their nonlinear dynamics model, adjusting parameters for the relative social and utilitarian merits of membership of the \"non-religious\" category.

$ u4 b2 t+ r* B' e2 d2 Q* WThey 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.

2 F, V8 L9 S4 t7 j& Y# uAnd in all the countries, the indications were that religion was headed toward extinction.
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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.
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\"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.

However, he told BBC News that he thought it was \"a suggestive result\".
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$ i% u- }* L  b3 O/ |7 X) F\"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.

: i# }2 A0 J! Y% d: c. g\"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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) f8 {' x+ h, ?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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' C) M- e6 f. ~% g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。