num_pages: 238
description: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos University of California Presss Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In a time when conservative politicians challenge the irrefutability of scientific findings such as climate change it is more important than ever to understand the conflict at the heart of the religion vs. science debates unfolding in the public sphere. In this groundbreaking work John H. Evans reveals that with a few limited exceptions even the most conservative religious Americans accept sciences ability to make factual claims about the world. However many religious people take issue with the morality implicitly promoted by some forms of science. Using clear and engaging scholarship Evans upends the prevailing notion that there is a fundamental conflict over the way that scientists and religious people make claims about nature and argues that only by properly understanding moral conflict between contemporary religion and science will we be able to contribute to a more productive interaction between these two great institutions.
language: English
title: Morals Not Knowledge: Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science
publisher: University of California Press