The Inter-Relationships Between Religious Affiliation and Science Denial

Bio-1202 Essay 1: The Inter-Relationships Between Religious Affiliation and Science Denial

In response to the New York Times article, I agree with the majority of the points that were made starting with the opening argument that states that our society has been having some confusing discussions/arguments about the relationship between religious beliefs and the rejection of science.  To me, religion has everything to do with how you perceive the outside world. For example, I can speak on behalf of the Southern Baptist religion since I was born into a Baptist family and proclaim that as my religion, but people who have the same religion as I do often go to different churches. Why is that? The only explanation that I have come up with is that every single person perceives their religion in an ego centralistic way. They pick and choose what they want to believe and therefor if what they choose to believes conflicts with another person then they decide to go elsewhere to practice that religion.

        There is a key term that I think that this article is missing. That term is “fence-walker”, this term is used when people who believe in Christianity also believe in evolution and other sciences. They perceive that science is the way that God does things. A prime example would be that “fence-walkers” believe that the “big bang” was Gods way of creating the earth. Religious beliefs also tie in with political beliefs which again, also ties in with environmental beliefs. All three in my opinion are very closely related.

        Science denial shouldn’t be overlooked. The reason is, is that the world is indeed changing, and not for the better. Denial of science affects our society dramatically so much to the fact that those people will be the ones to run our planet “earth” into the ground. I believe that to relive this issue sciences need to taught at a younger age and integrated into our life more so that it helps us to understand in the future.