Literary Discussions

I didn't find this P.E.W. Survey until after Lair de-friended me but surveys are not necessary to refute Lair's argument. If you accept the notion that doctors and pharmacists are at the bottom rung of the science ladder (while Einstein and Stephen Hawking are at the top) then all you have to do is talk to a few doctors and pharmacists (which I have done lately) and present Lair's argument to them about "the invisible friend" disqualifying people from rational activities and they will laugh and say that the notion is ridiculous. So it is really not germane to the argument whether the P.E.W. survey is accurate or whether scientists would quibble about what it means to say "higher power." Such objections are moronic. Would you like to debate whether an apple or a sunset is RED then I will be a moron and quibble that you cannot define red. If you say you are looking for an honest lawyer I can be a moron and quibble with you that you cannot define HONESTY. But we all have a basic understanding of what is meant by "belief in some higher power" just as we all thing the same thing when we hear the words RED and HONEST.  All you need to do is find one famous scientist or mathematician who was obviously religious and the Atheist argument is refuted.