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On most issues, there is actually very little conflict between religion and science. Religion makes no claims about the speed of hummingbird wings, and there are no university departments of anti-resurrection studies — scientists generally are unconcerned with the vast majority of religious claims and vice versa...
The greatest conflict between fundamentalists, evangelicals and science is not over facts but over values.While scientists like to say that their work is value-free, that is not how the public views it, and conservative Protestants especially have homed in on the moral message of science...
The same research that shows fundamentalists generally believe in science's ability to gather facts about the world also shows that they do not want scientists to lead the public debate on issues concerning morality...
