"CONTEXT"

Supposedly only 12% of Hong Kong population

is Christian.

"Among the religious population, the traditional "three teachings" of China, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, have the most adherents (20 per cent), and are followed by Christianity (12 per cent) and Islam (four per cent).[177] Followers of other religions, including Sikhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and the Bahá'í Faith, generally originate from regions where their religion predominates.[177]"

The "scientists" from Hong Kong are more religious

than the general population.

One book(see below) ascribes that fact to several religious

schools supported by The Roman Catholic Church and

other Christian denominations trained many of the scientists.

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

""More than half of scientists in India, Italy, Taiwan and Turkey self-identify as religious," Ecklund said.

"And it's striking that approximately twice as many 'convinced atheists' exist in the general population of Hong Kong, for example, (55 percent) compared with the scientific community in this region (26 percent).""

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"Ecklund and fellow Rice researchers Kirstin Matthews and Steven Lewis collected information from 9,422 respondents in eight regions around the world: France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Taiwan, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S. They also traveled to these regions to conduct in-depth interviews with 609 scientists, the largest worldwide survey and interview study ever conducted of the intersection between faith and science."

[link to phys.org (secure)]

The book:

[link to www.amazon.com (secure)]

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