Education can solve religion-science conflicts - report from AAAS meeting

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VANCOUVER — A perceived conflict between science and religion has led Americans to rank nearly last among industrialized countries in understanding evolution, educators told a major science conference this weekend.

But research suggests that education changes anti-science attitudes among even the most religious of students, while history shows that science can thrive alongside religion, said Kenneth Miller of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

"Evolution is exhibit A on the cutting edge of the anti-science movement in the US," Miller told a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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"Effective education can increase the acceptance of science, but not by bashing religion," he added.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. I believe it is religion bashing science

I see no proof in religion

[MarkCharles]

3. Quite correct! It is never...

atheism bashing science. All the anti-scientific approaches come directly from religion or from minds confused as to what is logical because of those people's claims to "other ways of knowing". I agree.

[kestrel91316]

2. This is why fundies and teabaggers hate public education. They hold the view that

the only book necessary for any person to read, EVER, is the bible. It's all there. Everything a person ever needs to know. And every single word is literally true.

Education kinda puts the kibosh on that whole idea.

[cleanhippie]

4. Education and religion are mutually exclusive.

Unless one is talking about religious education

[Goblinmonger]

5. But part of the problem is that those that need this education the most

rail against it the most. As a literature teacher, it is always the most conservative religious that are taken aback at any notion of studying something outside their own mindset and religious world.

[Humanist_Activist]

6. Of course it solves the conflict, science education increases, religious...

adherence and prominence fades, and hopefully disappears. This has, universally, been the trend lately, and I don't see any changes happening anytime in the future.

[skepticscott]

7. It takes more than a "perceived" conflict

to turn this country's science education into crap. The conflict is entirely real, and cannot be addressed without saying flat out that some people's religious beliefs are plain and simply nonsense.