Eine neue Studie ergab, dass Personen mit starken religiösen Überzeugungen dazu neigen, Wissenschaft und Religion als vereinbar zu betrachten, während diejenigen, die stark an die Wissenschaft glauben, eher Konflikte wahrnehmen. Es wurde jedoch auch festgestellt, dass stärkere religiöse Überzeugungen mit einem schwächeren Glauben an die Wissenschaft verbunden waren.
Religious believers see compatibility with science, while science enthusiasts perceive conflict
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-56030-001.html
From the linked article:
A recent study published in Psychology of Religion and Spirituality explored the relationship between belief systems and perceptions of science and religion. It found that individuals with strong religious beliefs tend to see science and religion as compatible, whereas those who strongly believe in science are more likely to perceive conflict. These findings offer new insights into how different meaning systems shape people’s understanding of the relationship between these two domains.
Across all countries, participants with stronger religious beliefs were more likely to perceive science and religion as compatible. This association persisted regardless of participants’ level of belief in science, suggesting that religious individuals often integrate scientific principles into their worldview without seeing them as a threat to their faith.
In contrast, stronger belief in science was associated with perceptions of conflict between science and religion. Participants who viewed science as the best way of knowing tended to perceive religious beliefs as incompatible with scientific principles. This finding reflects the differing epistemological foundations of the two systems: science relies on empirical evidence and natural laws, while religion often incorporates supernatural explanations.
Zarzeczna also highlighted “an interesting contradiction.” The researchers discovered that people with strong religious beliefs were more likely to view science and religion as compatible. However, they also found that stronger religious beliefs were linked to weaker belief in science.
As an atheist, I get pretty uncomfortable if my doctor or dentist says something overtly religious. Once I was chatting with my dentist about genealogy and working on my family history/tree and he starts telling me how his wife has traced their ancestry to Adam and Eve… and he seemed to believe it. Good dentist in general, but him saying that undermined my confidence in him.
I don’t not understand how science can be a “belief ” .. Science is a methodology to find an objective truth. Studies can be reviewed, criticized and categorized. but it’s not about faith or “belief” in the methodology itself.
Science doesn’t need belief. It explores, explains, and utilizes what already is and can be observed or extrapolated.
As a scientist, it is improper to explain it as “belief in science”.
Science is a process of finding truth.
It requires no belief in anything.
Science isn’t a belief. Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence. This is based upon observation, experimentation, and testing of theories against evidence.
Religion is a belief.
Most working scientists I know don’t necessarily identify as atheists.
I loathe religion. It was designed and implemented as a control tactic for the masses. What I do have is Faith. I have Faith in science and “The Creator” is the embodiment of all objective reality and realities yet to be proven.
Religion was a stepping stone and has run its course. Let entropy consume it.
As a hermeticist, this is the founding idea behind our entire philosophy – that God cannot be understood except by learning about the world through diligent and morally wise study. That the physical workings of the heavens and the earth are fundamentally driven by the same laws. As above, so below.
“Gnosis is the end of science, and science is God’s gift.” – Hermes in his discourse to Tat
Faith is antithetical to science.
I don’t have to believe in science; it’s a method to accept or reject beliefs based on evidence.
The more I learn everyday, however, using my available senses, the more awe and reverence I have for the immense scale and complexity of the universe. I am humbled by it and curious to discover and understand more.
It’s very spiritual to me but not superstitious, where I feel like the connotation of the word “religious” implies a combination of the two.
This is the Dunning-Kruger effect at work, right?
Those who believe strongly in religion and know nothing of science think “Yeah, I’m sure we could find scientific evidence for big magic man in the sky.” On the contrary, those who actually have experience in science are like “absolutely not.”
Religion = Belief without evidence (faith)
Science = NO belief without evidence.
They are exact opposites and not at all compatible. It is literally impossible to be both religious and scientific about the same issue. Religious scientists compartmentalize what they will and will not believe without evidence, based solely on emotion (which is not a scientific way to decide).
Interestingly the study didn’t include Judaism, which has gladly accepted science to explain the natural laws of the universe for thousands of years.
Science isn’t belief, it’s fact
It’s Because science is about facts. He doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.
God is only real if you believe. Science continues to function as normal with or without your belief.
They are fundamentally incompatible, but humans are masters of mental compartmentalization, dismissing cognitive dissonance, and holding on to conflicting beliefs despite the hypocrisy.
so weaker belief in science tends to see science and religion compatible. Who would have guessed!
Poll US citizens, you’ll find the inverse is true instead.
Religious people in the US largely reject science because it conflicts with their belief systems.
Pope wears funny hat
Bears poop in the woods.
C’mon researchers give us something juicy
Looks like the loudest voices in the religious community are the ones rejecting science.
There’s people that believe in science indeed, that’s basically having a different religion, you practice Science, and in that practice some “truths” are stated, but when you practice science, that truth is not static and is always under the practice of science.
If you believe in scientific truths, that’s a religious-like situation.
Yeah, the last time I went to an actual church service, it was to placate my mom on Christmas. Literally, the entire service was about how Science doesn’t have the answers. I was fuming the entire time and have never gone since. It’s also always my religious friends and family that are anti-vax, and some of them stayed that way even after their own also-anti-vax family members died from Covid.