ABSTRACT
The public and scholars alike have long been interested in the relationship between religion and science. A control for students’ race is constructed consisting of whether the student identified as white, black, Asian, Hispanic, multiracial, or other race on the freshman survey. Education students overwhelmingly view themselves as on the side of religion in the conflict, while business students are more divided in their loyalties. The religious commitment measure shows that students scoring higher on social conservatism scale are more likely to have a pro-religion conflict stance and less likely to have a pro-science conflict perspective. Students at a religiously affiliated institution are less likely to hold a pro-religion conflict perspective. It is possible that students at religious institutions are exposed more to the independence or collaboration perspective, while those at secular schools may be more exposed to the conflict perspective, which then becomes reflected in their views.
