The answer is YES.
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recent study from Rice University indicates that 15% of scientists at major research universities see science and religion in constant conflict.
They interviewed a scientifically selected sample of 275 participants, pulled from a survey of 2,198 tenured and tenure-track faculty in the natural and social sciences at 21 elite U
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Other than that, are they compatible? Well, anything is compatible, we're humans after all. Yesterday I learned that onion is compatible with strawberry jam (or so I was told), but meh. It'd be kinda weird and maybe a little, um, how was the word believers like to use... oh yes, "unnatural" to try.
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In this regard, religion is also a science of a sort.
Certainly the hard sciences, chemistry, geology, physics, etc are much further along. In hard science most formulas work, and most experiments obey common theories.
The trouble is with poli-sci, and theology, is this human variable... we havn't enough understanding of psychology and sociology that politics and religion depend upon. Heck we havn't even a close understanding of medicine or even biology.
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When I was younger, I got this idea that "real" religion is religion that questions itself and evolves, pursuing the ideals of human justice and truth.
Then I figured out that what I was talking about was actually philosophy, which is a kind of science, really.
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