A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion is become extinct in these countries.
The research found a steady increase in the number of people who claim no faith at all.
The mathematical model used by the scientists took into account the relationship between the number of respondents who were religious and social motivations that they had.
The result, released at the meeting of the American Physical Society (American Physical Society) in Dallas, United States, says that religion will die completely in those countries.
A team member, Daniel Abrams, Northwestern University, proposed a similar model in 2003 in order to declining numbers less widely spoken languages \u200b\u200bin the world.
The core of the study was to observe the competition between speakers of different languages \u200b\u200band the "usefulness" speak one over another.
"Simple"
"The idea is quite simple," said Richard Wiener, the Corporation for Advance Scientific Research.
"The study suggests that social groups have more members to join is more attractive and suggests that such groups have a social status or income.
" For example, in the language may be more useful or status speak English rather than Quechua (with a tendency to disappear) in Peru. Similarly there is some kind of status or income to be a member of a religion or not. "
The team took census data going back to a century in the countries where the census refers to religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.
"In many modern secular democracies is a popular tendency to identify themselves as not affiliated with any faith. In the Netherlands, the number was 40% and the highest we saw was in the Czech Republic, where he was 60%, "says Wiener.
The team then applied the model of nonlinear dynamics, adjusting the parameters of the social merits and utility of the members of the category of "non-religious."
discovered in their study published online, the parameters were similar in all countries studied, suggesting, through mathematics, that the behavior was similar in all of them.
And in all countries, the indications were that religion was headed for extinction.
"I think it is a suggestive result," said Wiener.
"It is interesting that a rather simple model captures the data, and if these simple ideas are correct, gives results of what might be happening."
"Obviously, any individual through complex situations, but all that is average." Source
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold "...
(Matthew 24:12)
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