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In 1998, Larson and Witham polled the cream of American scientists, those who'd been honored by election to the National Academy of Sciences, and among this select group, belief in a personal God dropped to a shattering seven percent.
About 20 percent are agnostic; the rest could fairly be called atheists.
Among biological scientists, the figure is even lower: 5.5 percent, only, believe in God.
Physical scientists, it's 7.5 percent.
Now, this is an elite audience, and I would therefore expect about 10 percent of you to be religious.
This abalone shell is a biocomposite material that's 98 percent by mass calcium carbonate and two percent by mass protein.
Through evolution and selection, we took it from an eight percent efficiency solar cell to an 11 percent efficiency solar cell.
Just as an aside, I wanted to mention, cities are only two percent of the Earth's crust, but they are 50 percent of the world's population.
It's over 90 percent water, so we need to let that evaporate.
Let's try and sum things up, shall we? Images of limb regeneration and faces filled with smallpox: 21 percent of the conference.
Mentions of polar bears drowning: four percent.
Images of the earth being wiped out by flood or bird flu: 64 percent.
Now, red is Rick Warren, and green is Daniel Dennett, OK? (Laughter) The scales here are religiosity from zero percent, or atheist, to 100 percent, Bible literally true.
But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic are also receding right now to the point that the ice is ending up on land and not injecting any ice back into the ecosystem.
Outside of this room, more than a third of us smile more than 20 times per day, whereas less than 14 percent of us smile less than five.
The brief is that the bus should use 40 percent less energy.
And the world's first major botanical institution is in London, and they have this extraordinary project where they've been collecting 25 percent of all the world's plant species.
And by linking these together, we could have 90 percent of the site as a rainforest, instead of only 10 percent of scrubby trees and bits of road around buildings.
But about 10 percent of the time, after the patient has recovered from one of those events, pain persists.
Early data shows that restorative justice builds empathy; that it reduces violent reoffending by up to 75 percent; that it eases PTSD in survivors of the most severe violence.
Ninety-five percent of all these folks are coming home.
And you know what, he's right, because 60 to 75 percent of those returning to their communities will be unemployed a year after their release.
More than 90 percent, 99 percent, of the living space on our planet is ocean.
He got 100 percent in all the important things, like nursery rhymes, for example there.
In Umar's home country of Nigeria, a 95 percent reduction in the number of children paralyzed by polio last year.
And lately, to be involved in projects where I know about 50 percent of the project technique-wise and the other 50 percent would be new.
We look, for example, about the fact that we share at least 95 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees.
We spend most of our money on the last 20 percent of life.
Only in about 20 percent of visits do you need to lay hands on the patient.
Indirect measurements have shown that the global phytoplankton population may have decreased by as much as 40 percent between 1950 and 2010 because of climate change.
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