{"id":1610,"date":"2024-07-24T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:02:24","slug":"do-religion-and-science-have-to-conflict-with-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/do-religion-and-science-have-to-conflict-with-one-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Religion and Science Have to Conflict with One Another?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are trained to deal with only that which can be proven, so naturally they deal exclusively with the physical world.\u00a0 Therefore, it is widely assumed that most scientists are atheists.\u00a0 A 20-year examination of scientists attitudes toward religion shows that assumption is largely accurate, one study showing that about 30 percent of responding scientists declared a religious affiliation.\u00a0 However, atheist scientists are much less negative about religion than one might expect.\u00a0 One survey discovered that two-thirds of scientists do not view the science\u2013religion relationship as one of conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How religious scientists balance work and faith<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-01471-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-01471-0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780802873705\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are trained to deal with only that which can be proven, so naturally they deal exclusively with the physical world.\u00a0 Therefore, it is widely assumed that most scientists are atheists.\u00a0 A 20-year examination of scientists attitudes toward religion shows that assumption is largely accurate, one study showing that about 30 percent of responding scientists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/do-religion-and-science-have-to-conflict-with-one-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Do Religion and Science Have to Conflict with One Another?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,56,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-religion","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}