Interesting article over at Q Ideas today concerining the interaction of people of faith and the scientific community. I encourage you to read the entire post, but this excerpt caught my attention.
Contrary to the popular opinion that those who are regular readers of Scripture are diametrically opposed to scientific inquiry:
"Another study showing that religiosity leads to harmony between science and religion comes from Baylor University, where researcher Aaron Franzen finds that increased frequency of Bible reading is tied to, among other things, improved attitudes toward science. “Respondents were 22 percent less likely to view religion and science as incompatible at each step toward more frequent Bible reading,” according to David Briggs, who reported the Baylor study for Association of Religion Data Archives. (Interestingly, higher rates of Bible reading were also correlated with greater support for social and economic justice, simple lifestyles, humane treatment of criminals, and with lower support for abortion, same-sex unions, the death penalty, and the expansion of the war on terrorism.)"
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