{"id":11963,"date":"2010-05-13T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2694"},"modified":"2010-05-13T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:19:36","slug":"the-new-war-between-science-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/05\/13\/the-new-war-between-science-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"The New War Between Science and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tThere is a new war between science and religion, rising from the ashes of the old one, which ended with the defeat of the anti-evolution forces in the 2005 &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; trial. The new war concerns questions that are more profound than whether or not to teach evolution. Unlike the old science-religion war, this battle is going to be fought not in the courts but in the arena of public opinion. The new war pits those who argue that science and &#8220;moderate&#8221; forms of religion are compatible worldviews against those who think they are not.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe former group, known as accommodationists, seeks to carve out areas of knowledge that are off-limits to science, arguing that certain fundamental features of the world\u00adsuch as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the origin of the universe\u00adallow for God to act in ways that cannot be detected using the methods of science. Some accommodationists, including Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, suggest that there are deeply mysterious, spiritual domains of human experience, such as morality, mind, and consciousness, for which only religion can provide deep insights.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-New-War-Between-Science\/65400\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new war between science and religion, rising from the ashes of the old one, which ended with the defeat of the anti-evolution forces in the 2005 &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; trial. The new war concerns questions that are more profound than whether or not to teach evolution. Unlike the old science-religion war, this battle &#8230; <a title=\"The New War Between Science and Religion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/05\/13\/the-new-war-between-science-and-religion\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}