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AAAS News Release - "A Sociologist and a Journalist Assess How Science and Religion Get Along"
Elaine Howard Ecklund Although nearly a quarter of Americans think scientists are hostile to religion and about 30% of scientists surveyed by a Rice University sociologist consider themselves atheists, the true picture of what scientists think about religion and spirituality is more complex than popular conceptions, the sociologist told a recent AAAS gathering. Elaine Howard Ecklund, who surveyed nearly 1700 natural and social scientists at leading research universities and conducted in-depth interviews with 275 of them, said that nearly half of the scientists identified with a religious label and even 22% of the atheist scientists in her survey expressed feelings of spirituality about nature and the mysteries of the world.
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion: Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion Dialogue, 16 June 2010
Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion DialogueThere’s time for one more debate here, about my Earth Day column , but first an announcement: After three years of experiments, TierneyLab is shutting down. I’ll still be testing ideas in my Findings columns and in other articles for The Times, and you can keep up with them by following me on Twitter . You can also keep trying the weekly math puzzle at its new home starting next Monday at The Times Wordplay blog . I’ll miss our debates here — well, most of them, anyway — but I like to think we can have even better ones now that I’ll be concentrating on my columns and on longer articles (and there will be plenty of opportunity for you to dispute them).
Social Sciences and Society - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
AAAS - Science and Human Rights Program
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