Science is open-minded on the existence of God

I would be curious to know exactly which Pew Research poll StanG is referring to when he states that “the more religious people are, the less they oppose science and its findings”, and “conversely, the closer they are to atheism, the more likely they are to view their beliefs as incompatible with science”.

I ask this because my first reaction to these statements was one of total disbelief. I searched the Internet but could find no Pew Research supporting this statement.

While I am a committed atheist, I have always believed that, though science does not necessarily dismiss the existence of God (or gods), many religious people dismiss science. A classic example is fundamentalist Christians who regard the Bible as the literal word of God, that the world is just 6,000 years old, and that evolution is a myth – totally ignoring all the scientific evidence to the contrary.

David Brown