{"id":13484,"date":"2014-05-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/03\/survey-when-science-and-faith-collide-faith-usually-wins\/"},"modified":"2014-05-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:00:00","slug":"survey-when-science-and-faith-collide-faith-usually-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/03\/survey-when-science-and-faith-collide-faith-usually-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: When Science And Faith Collide, Faith Usually Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON, May 2, 2014, (by Cathy Lynn Grossman, RNS): Believers don’t buy the Big Bang, God-less evolution or a human responsibility for global warming. Actually, neither do many Americans. But a new survey by The Associated Press found that religious identity — particularly evangelical Protestant — was one of the sharpest indicators of skepticism toward key issues in science.<\/p>\n

The survey presented a series of statements that several prize-winning scientist say are facts. However, the research shows that confidence in their correctness varies sharply among U.S. adults. It found:<\/p>\n

* 51 percent of U.S. adults overall (including 77 percent of people who say they are born-again or evangelical) have little or no confidence that “the universe began 13.8 billion years ago with a big bang.”
* 42 percent overall (76 percent of evangelicals) doubt that “life on Earth, including human beings, evolved through a process of natural selection.”
* 37 percent overall (58 percent of evangelicals) doubt that the Earth’s temperature is rising “mostly because of man-made heat-trapping greenhouse gases.”
* 36 percent overall (56 percent of evangelicals) doubt “the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.”<\/p>\n

On the flip side, most people are pretty sure the “universe is so complex, there must be a supreme being guiding its creation” — 54 percent of all Americans, and 87 percent of evangelicals. Nobel Prize-winning scientists expressed dismay at the findings. “When you are putting up facts against faith, facts can’t argue against faith,” Duke University biochemist Robert Lefkowitz, who won a Nobel Prize in 2012, told The Associated Press. He called faith “untestable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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