"Most Evangelical Christians Say Science and Religion Can Coexist," Megan Gannon

"Never mind the outspoken Christian leaders who reject the Big Bang and human evolution; nearly 70 percent of rank-and-file evangelicals in the United States say they don't see religion and science as being totally at odds, a new survey found.

'Although many politicians and the media at large portray evangelicals as distrustful of science, we found that this is more myth than reality,' Elaine Howard Ecklund, a sociologist at Rice University who orchestrated the survey, said in a statement...."

"Ecklund and her colleagues think the perception that evangelical Christians are unfriendly to science might hinge on just a few of these hot-button issues, like creationism. The evangelicals who saw science and religion as incompatible often fixated on human origins, the study found. One survey participant who was part of a largely white evangelical congregation in Houston, Texas, explained this point of view to the interviewers:

'As a Christian, creation — really it's all or nothing. Either the entire Bible's right or it's all wrong. Either everything inside of it is 100 percent accurate, or none of it is. So if creation could be disproven … So just completely take that away, that just devastates my entire way of life, my entire being. … Nobody wants to change. Christians don't want to change, and atheists don't want to change....'"  "...Science and Religion Can Co-Exist," Megan Gannon, Live Science, March 17, 2015.