According to some recent research; yes...
A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.
The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.
The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.
The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.
The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Their means of analysing the data invokes what is known as nonlinear dynamics - a mathematical approach that has been used to explain a wide range of physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part.
One of the team, Daniel Abrams of Northwestern University, put forth a similar model in 2003 to put a numerical basis behind the decline of lesser-spoken world languages.
At its heart is the competition between speakers of different languages, and the "utility" of speaking one instead of another.
"The idea is pretty simple," said Richard Wiener of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, and the University of Arizona.
"It posits that social groups that have more members are going to be more attractive to join, and it posits that social groups have a social status or utility.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197Why though?
What i've found over time is that, religion becomes a lesser focal point in people lives , people have also found it to be restrictive.
In immigration communities, I can see why some there would start to question their beliefs, perhaps they have been shown different belief ideas, which have caused some to maybe question their own.
Maybe people who have gotten older, (I know people who have had just too many hard knocks in life to be able to believe that God is on their side) thus, they think that God is simply not listening to them.
However I believe these studies are only based in Western Countries, so not really in countries with the highest population growth, so I can't see the same applying in these countries though?
What do you think?
