Science and religion do mix

Rice University ^ | September 20, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

Rice University study reveals only 15 percent of scientists at major research universities see religion and science always in conflict

Throughout history, science and religion have appeared as being in perpetual conflict, but a new study by Rice University suggests that only a minority of scientists at major research universities see religion and science as requiring distinct boundaries.

"When it comes to questions about the meaning of life, ways of understanding reality, origins of Earth and how life developed on it, many have seen religion and science as being at odds and even in irreconcilable conflict," said Rice sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund. But a majority of scientists interviewed by Ecklund and colleagues viewed both religion and science as "valid avenues of knowledge" that can bring broader understanding to important questions, she said.

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They interviewed a scientifically selected sample of 275 participants, pulled from a survey of 2,198 tenured and tenure-track faculty in the natural and social sciences at 21 elite U.S. research universities. Only 15 percent of those surveyed view religion and science as always in conflict. Another 15 percent say the two are never in conflict, and 70 percent believe religion and science are only sometimes in conflict. Approximately half of the original survey population expressed some form of religious identity, whereas the other half did not.

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Scientists as a whole are substantially different from the American public in how they view teaching "intelligent design" in public schools. Nearly all of the scientists – religious and nonreligious alike – have a negative impression of the theory of intelligent design.

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[blueunicorn6]

And 90% of them wonder how a bass player can get music out of a fish.

[allmendream]

You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. ;)

[Free Vulcan]

That’s because alot of what poses as science today is actually secular religion, and the State is a very jealous god.

[sodpoodle]

The Creation
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

And as a result of this wonderment - science was born.

[RatRipper]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Proverbs 9:10

[Retain Mike]

One standard for good science is usefulness. Even if Darwinism stumbles in explaining physical phenomenon, it has already contributed vital social and political apologetics. Darwin’s life on PBS explained his important contributions to predatory nationalism, capitalism and socialism.

Tyrants always require philosophical justification to convince masses to surrender freedom to them and do their bidding. Lenin combined Marx and Darwin to prove the working class would rise to dominate the society, so his revolution was a natural, progressive, inevitable event. Hitler combined Nietzsche, Darwin and others to prove the Nordic race superior to all others, especially the Jewish and Slavic peoples from whom Germans would take land. John D. Rockefeller and other robber barons looked to Darwin and Adam Smith for the justification for predatory to use their wealth and power.

In each case the outcome was entirely proper, because power was the natural condition and damage to other humans was a natural outcome. About any religion or philosophy can be backwards engineered into reasons for a tyrants reign. Darwinism has such a pernicious utility, because it can be appended to any philosophy or religion. Treated as a catalyst, the tyrant’s priest or lawyer can backwards engineer an amalgam creating a logic justifying the superiority of his position.

[blueunicorn6]

I tried to tuna fish once.....just for the halibut.

[allmendream]

Holey mackerel! Did you get schooled? ;)

[SunkenCiv]

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