Gary B. Ferngren is a history professor at Oregon State University and the author or editor of multiple books on science and religion, including Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction and Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. He can also be reached via the website contact form.

A 1997 poll looks into scientists’ perspective on religion and their assumed “rejection” of God.

An American Scientist survey found that only ten percent of eminent evolutionary scientists see an inevitable conflict between religion and evolution.

Check out PollingReport.com polls about Americans’ beliefs about evolution, creationism and Intelligent Design.

A survey released in August 2005 by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reported Americans’ beliefs about the origins of life.

An MIT survey published in Feb. 2013 interviewed and observed the gap between religion and science, in particular the struggle between faith and science on the topic of the creation of the universe, evolution and intelligent design.

Read a May 21, 2013 Huffington Post article about the struggle that many Christians have with reconciling science and faith.

Read an May 23, 2013 Catholic Reporter response to an essay about the relationship between religion and science, and how history influenced how the subjects are debated today.

Nancy Cott is a history professor at Harvard and author of Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2001).