{"id":801,"date":"2011-09-11T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:45:42","slug":"science-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/09\/11\/science-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Science &amp; Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Stray Croc on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/78936161@N00\/6137939487\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6177\/6137939487_fc1e272945_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Undredal Church\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTensions between religion and science are not new. \u00a0Today, many people assume that scientists are athiests, but little is actually known about their religious and spiritual views. \u00a0To learn more, Elaine Howard Ecklund conducted a study of religion among scientists. \u00a0She explores the results of the study in the 2008 <em>Contexts <\/em>feature &#8220;Religion and Spirituality Among Scientists.&#8221; \u00a0Below are a few questions to accompany the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Does the finding that scientists often hold religious views surprise you? \u00a0Would you assume it varies by discipline? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why do you think a greater proportion of scientists are atheists than the general population?<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Considering that 69% of social scientists surveyed identified as spiritual, how might you explain a reluctance to discuss religion in an\u00a0academic setting?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between religion and science are not new. \u00a0Today, many people assume that scientists are athiests, but little is actually known about their religious and spiritual views. \u00a0To learn more, Elaine Howard Ecklund conducted a study of religion among scientists. \u00a0She explores the results of the study in the 2008 Contexts feature &#8220;Religion and Spirituality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[838,42,665],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-readings","tag-religion","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}