Science vs. Religion What Scientists Really Think

Name: Science vs. Religion What Scientists Really Think
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ISBN: 9780199975006

ISBN-10: 0199975000

ISBN-13: 9780199975006

Edition: 2013

Authors: Elaine Howard Ecklund

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That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever.In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard Ecklund investigates this unexamined assumption in the first systematic study of what scientists actually think and feel about religion. In the course of her research, Ecklund surveyed nearly 1,700 scientists and interviewed 275 of them. She finds that most ofwhat we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong. Nearly 50 percent of them are religious. Many others are what she calls…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.21" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University at Buffalo, SUNY and a Research Affiliate of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University. She is currently completing a nation-wide study of religion and spirituality among academic scientists at elite research universities.