Who Out Numbers Whom : the Theists or the Atheists?

Who outnumbers whom? The atheist or the theist?

This is a great contention. It can be said with great amount of certainty that the number of the atheists are gradually on the rise. But the breed of theists is overwhelming and is in absolute majority. And in the long run they will remain so. The atheists will never be in a position to outnumber them. This is no beating about the bush.

Man is a spiritual being by nature. He has spiritual hunger of his own and is always hungry for spiritual food. He can fast on physical food but not on spiritual food without which he cannot survive. That 'manna' is quintessential for his essential being and self. There is no denying of the fact.

To say that man is essentially a spiritual being does in no way mean that it is all the way religiosity or belief in the existence of God is the prime mover of a man's existence, rather it is a way of his secular life and being and it is in no way akin to practising so-called god-fearing religion. And at the same time this spiritualism has no bearing on the pettyfogging spiritualism of the so-called god-men.

Actually man is the only animal who is always fearing of the fury of nature and has some amazing feeling for the beauty of nature or for that matter the mystery and wonder of nature which has in the process given rise to religion and science thereafter. Science has tried its best to demystify the nature by way of exploring deep into the realm of nature and has been successful to some extent to know the rules of law into its system. But science has failed miserably to get to the rock bottom of nature. It is no fault of science, rather it is its limitation. That limitation will always be there. And and that limitation always drags science from far to farther but not to the farthest.