Debates about whether science and religion can overlap are often made in broad strokes, but researchers say there is more agreement than widely believed.
, a Cambridge-based research institute. It used information gleaned from interviews with more than 100 experts from fall 2019 to fall 2020, and from a YouGov survey of 5,153 U.K.-based adults conducted last year between early May and mid-June.about science and religion is often viewed"out of proportion," with the"loudest voices" on either side often dominating discussions about popular topics like evolution and the creation of the universe.
"In short, much of the science and religion 'battle' has been smoke—and there has been a lot of smoke—but without much real fire," an overview for the study said. A new report by Theos and The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion suggests white men are most likely to reject a link between science and religion. Above, sun shines through St. John's Celtic Cross standing outside the main entrance of the Iona Abbey on the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland on July 2, 2018.
Researchers found that perspectives on whether science and religion are compatible in a general sense were more negative than questions about whether specific areas of science can be compatible with religion. They credited these differences to the"legacy of antagonism" created during the New Atheist period.
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