{"id":3304,"date":"2015-03-15T06:25:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T06:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2015-03-15T06:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T06:29:30","slug":"nearly-70-percent-of-evangelicals-do-not-view-religion-science-as-being-in-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nearly-70-percent-of-evangelicals-do-not-view-religion-science-as-being-in-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 70 percent of evangelicals do not view religion, science as being in conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elaine Howard Ecklund, \u00a0Photo credit: Jeff Fitlow\/Rice University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HOUSTON\u2013\u00a0Media and popular culture might portray religion and science as being at odds, but new research from Rice University suggests just the opposite.<\/span><\/p>\n

Findings from the recently completed study “Religious Understandings of Science (RUS)” reveal that despite many misconceptions regarding the intersection of science and religion, nearly 70 percent of evangelical Christians do not view the two as being in conflict with each other.<\/span><\/div>\n

The research was presented by Rice sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund today in Washington, D.C., during the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference,\u00a0Perceptions: Science and Religious Communities<\/span><\/a>. Ecklund, the principal investigator and researcher for the RUS project, is the Autrey Professor of Sociology and director of Rice’s\u00a0Religion and Public Life Program<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ecklund noted that evangelicals are of interest in this study because they constitute\u00a0approximately 26 percent<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of the population in the U.S. and are often considered the most hostile toward science.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We really wanted to determine if this claim was based in any truth,” Ecklund said. “Although many politicians and the media at large portray evangelicals as distrustful of science, we found that this is more myth than reality.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Other key findings:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n