{"id":48863,"date":"2015-03-16T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_god_knows_evangelicals_are_more_science-friendly_than_you_think\/"},"modified":"2015-03-16T01:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T01:00:45","slug":"rns_god_knows_evangelicals_are_more_science-friendly_than_you_think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48863","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) God knows, evangelicals are more science-friendly than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That headline might sound familiar to readers at Faith &#038; Reason. And it should. The sociologist I wrote about last winter when her research showed the majority of scientists identify with a religious tradition, not God-denying atheists, myth-busting again.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the myth that bites the data dust, is one that proclaims evangelicals are a monolithic group of young-earth creationists opposed to theories of human evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, 70 percent of self-identified evangelicals \u201cdo not view religion and science as being in conflict,\u201d\u009d said Elaine Howard Ecklund, a sociologist and director of Rice University\u2019s Religion and Public Life Program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cathylynngrossman.religionnews.com\/2015\/03\/15\/god-knows-evangelicals-science-friendly-think\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That headline might sound familiar to readers at Faith &#038; Reason. And it should. The sociologist I wrote about last winter when her research showed the majority of scientists identify with a religious tradition, not God-denying atheists, myth-busting again. Now,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48863\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,154,108,95,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}