Morals not knowledge : recasting the contemporary U.S. conflict between religion and science /

Academics have long claimed that the relationship between religion and science concerns knowledge of the physical world, and that conflict ensues because religion has one way of knowing and science another. For example, it is claimed that to find the age of the Earth religious people look to holy sc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Evans, John Hyde, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2018].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The religion and science advocates in the academic debate
  • The academic analysts of the relationship between religion and science
  • Recent transformation of elite academic and public debates
  • Existing research on the public
  • Empirical tests of knowledge and belief conflict for the religious public
  • Empirical tests of moral conflict for the religious public
  • Conclusion.