This special section of the SHiPS website offers several case studies that both suggest ways to ease the tension between science and religion and, at other times, sharpen the distinction. Historically at least, the relationship is far from simple. Here, you will find questions and cases to provoke student thinking, rather than arguments about how science triumphs in a presumed battle with religion. The two perspectives have not always been viewed as antithetical, though. This contrast alone may offer a broad perspective from which to begin discussion.
Students deserve the opportunity to explore the relationship in the context of a science class.
Nearly everyone has an opinion about science and religion. Such views are frequently entrenched. By challenging many popular views or assumptions, they may inform and promote deeper reflection. In either case, the result is the same. An individual student some-times feels compelled to accept one and to reject the other.