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I hope that this is not a loaded question where the questioner has the assumption that few 'intelligent' people would deign themselves to follow Jesus Christ, and is expecting an answer that suggests that there are very few PhDs who would stoop so low as to be Christians.
That said, it is impossible to give an accurate percentage of all the millions of PhDs that exist and have existed who are Christians. However, the questioner might be surprised by the high percentage who do profess a faith in Jesus Christ. He or she would also be surprised by the percentage of science PhDs who profess such a faith.
Whilst I am not a PhD, I do hold two degrees in science (chemistry) and am currently working on a third (in middle age!) in theology, as a Christian and an ordinand in the Anglican Church. Contrary to what some believe, there is little conflict, if any, between science and Christianity despite what Richard Dawkins might suggest. I know he does not believe in God, but then neither do I believe in that same God he denies; at least I simply do not recognise what he means by God as it certainly is not the Christian God who he denegrates, as he has a very skewed and warped percption of Christ and Christians.
If the questioner wishes to discuss science and faith, I suggest that he looks up John Polkinhorne as a prome example of how faith and science (he is a professor of particle physics) work together, or drop me an email with specific questions at my Wiki email mailto:johnwelsh@wikianswers.com.
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Did Jewish people accept Islamic beliefs?
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