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In the first systematic study of what scientists actually think and feel about religion, Elaine Howard Ecklund investigates the assumption that science and religion are irreconcilable. In her research, Ecklund surveyed nearly 1,700 scientists and interviewed 275 of them. She finds that most of what we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong. Nearly 50 percent of them are religious. Many others are what she calls "spiritual entrepreneurs," seeking creative ways to work with the tensions between science and faith outside the constraints of traditional religion. No one has produced a study as deep and broad as Ecklund's, perhaps its most surprising finding is that nearly a quarter of the atheists and agnostics describe themselves as "spiritual"... only a small minority are actively hostile to religion... Ecklund reveals how scientists—believers and skeptics alike—are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms and argues that many scientists are searching for "boundary pioneers" to cross the picket lines separating science and religion.
