The percentage of supporters of creationism in Iceland among young people under 25 fell to 0, 0% Bashny.Net

Little Iceland stands out from the other countries not only for its geographical location and the phenomenal popularity of the Pirate Party. There are some other features that make you think: what is wrong with these Icelanders

? For example, a survey conducted by the country's inhabitants have recently shown that Iceland turns to exclusively secular non-religious state.

According to the survey less than half of the respondents admitted their religiosity, and more than 40% per cent of young people directly stated that they are atheists. For comparison, among people over 55 years of atheists only 11, 8%.

Especially clear answers to the question of youth creation. The version of the creation of the world as a result of the big bang was supported by 93, 9% of Icelanders to 25 years. Do not have a clear opinion or do not consider it correct, none of the options 6, 1%. And in the creation of the world God believe 0, 0%.

0, 0%

A survey conducted commissioned by the Ethical Humanist Association of Iceland, showed that religious nation has fallen to its lowest level in history. And this at a time when other countries are taught creationism in schools and sanctify the rocket before launch!



In fairness it should be noted that, formally, the Big Bang theory does not contradict the existence of God. In the end, the theory formulated by a Catholic priest, an eminent astronomer and mathematician Georges Lemaitre (and independently of it - the Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann)

. A survey in Iceland also showed that the vast majority of citizens (72%) in favor of a complete separation of church and state.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/275444/