But my dear chap, it is you who is weaseling the word. They have shown that in their experiments at least, analytic thought doesdecrease religiosity. You can see perfectly well that those are in fact the results they've got. And then you weasel the word "can" by suggesting that when they say "can" they might be talking about some bare and remote future possibility, rather than something that they've watched happening. If there's a mustelid round here, it's you.
That analytic thought does decrease religiosity is very different from can decrease religiosity. I see the latter shown from the findings, not the former, and again, to me it logically appears dependent upon the type of religiosity being discussed. I did look at the articles but the first gives no definite values while the second can't be accessed.