Gerald R. Baron
1 min readOct 23, 2022

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Benjamin, it's more enjoyable to engage with someone with whom you disagree if we stick to the facts and not engage in ad hominem attacks. "Fudging" and "gross" are unnecessary. If many of those identified as having a belief in some form of God or transcendence changed their mind later in life it would have been reflected in the data I referred to. The reports didn't say that as a child they believed but then grew up. Also, I'd love to know if you have read the Plantinga book I referred to or any of Plantiga's work?

Even the majority of philosophers reject physicalism and many if not most accept some form of transcendence. I can get you the reference if you like.

Also, since this is about numbers and what people believe, I'm wondering how you feel about the data that shows the number of atheists worldwide has declined by about 20 million since 1970?

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Gerald R. Baron
Gerald R. Baron

Written by Gerald R. Baron

Dawdling at the intersection of faith, science, philosophy and theology. Author of It Was My Turn, a Vietnam story.

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