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conflict, as they relate to attending church now is r =–.15 (N = 2595, t =–7.63, p < .0001); controlled for the two main effects.

Click here The negative correlation between interest in science and religiosity is r =–.26 (N = 2341, t =–13.33, p < .0001).

Click here The correlation between interest in science and education is r = .13 (N = 745, t =–3.70, p < .0001), between science and gender is r =–.24 (N = 745, t =–6.88, p < .0001), between science and conscientious is r = .09 (N = 745, t = 2.66, p < .0001), and between science and openness to experience is r = .21 (N = 745, t = 6.10, p < .0001 ).

Click here The negative correlation between being raised religiously and interest in science is r =–.26 (N = 2341, t =–13.33. p < .0001).

Click here The correlation between religiosity and age of serious doubt is r = .15 (N = 464, t = 3.19, p < .0001).

Click here The negative correlation between religiosity and political liberalism is r =–.40 (N = 916, t =–13.34, p < .0001).

Click here The negative correlation between openness to experience and religiosity is r =–.14 (N = 736, t =–3.75, p < .0001).

Click here The correlation between openness and religious doubt is r = .18 (N = 744, t = 4.88, p < .0001).

Click here The negative correlation between openness and change (diminution) in religiosity is r =–.09 (N = 719, t =–2.40, p < .01). ).

Click here The negative correlation between openness and the rate of church attendance is r =–.11 (N = 557, t =–2.55, p < .01).

Click here The correlation between birth order and openness is r = .11 (N = 526, t = 2.55, p < .01).

Click here The correlation between openness and political liberalism is r = .28 (N = 705, t = 1.77, p < .0001). The correlation between tender-mindedness and religiosity is r = .12 (N = 435, t = 2.40, p < .05). The partial correlation between birth order and liberalism is rp = .09 (N = 554, t = 2.10, p < .04, where rp is a partial correlation). Finally, the correlation between birth order and tender-mindedness is (rp = .14, controlled for the variables in the model).

Click here The correlation between gender and “rational” reasons for belief in God (apparently intelligent design of the world, without God there is no basis for morality, the existence of evil, pain and suffering, and scientific explanations of the world) is r =–.16 (N = 2085, t =–7.49, p < .0001).

Click here The correlation between gender and “emotional” reasons for belief in God (emotional comfort, faith, and desire for meaning and purpose in life) is r = .19 (N = 2054, t = 8.92, p < .0001).

Click here The correlation between education and rational reasons for God’s existence is r = .14 (N = 2085, t = 6.36, p < .0001).

Click here The negative correlation between education and emotional reasons for God’s existence is r =–.16 (N = 2054, t =–7.13, p < .0001).

Click here The correlation between openness and rational reasons for God’s existence is r = .11 (N = 714, t = 2.84, p < .005).

Click here The negative correlation between openness and emotional reasons for belief in God is r =–.12 (N = 710, t =–3.16, p < .002).

Click here The negative correlation between preferring rational reasons for God’s existence and being raised religiously is r =–.10 (N = 2085, df = 9/2075, t =–3.30, p < .001).

Click here The negative correlation between preferring rational reasons for God’s existence and parents’ religiosity is r =–.07 (N = 2085, t =–2.48, p < .01).

Click here To the two questions (a) In your own words, why do you believe in God, or why don’t you believe in God? and (b) In your own words, why do you think most other people believe in God?, the reasons people say they believe in God, and why they think other people believe in God, in order of the number of responses given in the written portion of the survey, are presented here. To control for possible experimenter bias in placing subjectively written answers into discrete categories, I had a research assistant score the same answers and found an interrater agreement