Within molecular clouds are regions with higher density, where lots of dust and gas cores reside, called clumps. These clumps are the beginning of star formation, if gravity can overcome the high density and force the dust and gas to collapse.
Taoism [is] the way of man's cooperation with the course or trend of the natural world, whose principles we discover in the flow patterns of water, gas, an fire, which are subsequently memorialized or sculptured in those of stone and wood, and, later, in many forms of human art. (From Tao: The Watercourse Way).
Confidence votes 166. Roughly 1.3 billion; everyone in China is a Taoist. Daoism is not a religion, it is a Philosophy that CAN be followed as a religion, and generally in China, most of the people there are both Taoist and Buddhist. Hardcore religious Daoists, number around 10 to 20 million though.