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The surprising links between faith and evolution and climate denial — charted [View all]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/20/this-chart-explains-why-faith-and-science-dont-have-to-be-in-conflict/By Chris Mooney May 20
For a long time, weve been having a pretty confused discussion about the relationship between religious beliefs and the rejection of science and especially its two most prominent U.S. incarnations, evolution denial and climate change denial.
At one extreme is the position that science denial is somehow deeply or fundamentally religions fault. But this neglects the wide diversity of views about science across faiths and denominations and even across individuals of the same faith or denomination not all of which are anti-climate science, or anti-evolution.
At the other extreme, meanwhile, is the view that religion has no conflict with science at all. But that cant be right either: Though the conflict between the two may not be fundamental or necessary in all cases, it is pretty clear that the main motive for evolution denial is, indeed, a perceived conflict with faith (not to mention various aspects of human cognition that just make accepting evolution very hard for many people).
The main driver of climate science rejection, however, appears to be a free market ideology which is tough to characterize as religious in nature. Nonetheless, it has often been observed (including by me) that evolution denial and climate science rejection often seem to overlap, at least to an extent.
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The surprising links between faith and evolution and climate denial — charted [View all]
cbayer
May 2015
OP
"At the other extreme, meanwhile, is the view that religion has no conflict with science at all."
trotsky
May 2015
#1
I don't think the graph shows there is no inherent conflict between science and religion.
eomer
May 2015
#33
There's a difference between not having scientific proof and being outside of science.
eomer
May 2015
#38
Right, we agree on most of this, just not the last part (but that part is critical).
eomer
May 2015
#42
I too like a feeling of mystery but I can get that and still have definitions of science and nature
eomer
May 2015
#46
I'm not drawing artificial lines around reality in order to get a pleasant feeling of mystery.
cbayer
May 2015
#51
Electricity wasn't ever supernatural, not before we understood it, not before we existed.
eomer
May 2015
#58
That's not the more logical position because it includes a word that we don't know what it means.
eomer
May 2015
#68
I find it fascinating to see one argue for the existence of something can't or won't define...
cleanhippie
May 2015
#72
Okay, we're narrowing down the part that we disagree about (by eliminating some things we agree on).
eomer
May 2015
#83
I'm not really interested in a "logical position" when it comes to the supernatural/god question
Yorktown
May 2015
#80
"A logical position would require using words in a way that they convey some coherent meaning..."
cleanhippie
May 2015
#71
I think this chart is scary as hell. The RcC holds as official doctrine that
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#48