{"id":2456691,"date":"2020-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323765"},"modified":"2020-04-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:00:00","slug":"marolt-science-and-religion-yielding-in-the-cul-de-sac-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/marolt-science-and-religion-yielding-in-the-cul-de-sac-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Marolt: Science and religion yielding in the cul-de-sac of truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don\u2019t know what the \u201creligious right\u201d believe concerning science. I am not sure I even really know what the \u201creligious right\u201d is. I mean, is a person of any denomination who is a registered Republican part of the religious right? Is there the \u201creligious left\u201d? How about the \u201creligious moderate\u201d or \u201creligious undecided\u201d?<\/p>\n

I know our nation\u2019s president doesn\u2019t seem to employ science in a lot of important matters, but I cannot tell whether that\u2019s because he simply embraces agreeing to disagree with scientists or if his ignoring it is purely for political expediency. We cannot set aside the possibility that he is an idiot, either, I suppose. You must admit, there are a lot of idiots who don\u2019t get science or even care about trying it on to see if it fits. At any rate, polls show that, generally, voters who identify with the religious right tend to support President Donald Trump, but does this necessarily mean they don\u2019t support science, too?<\/p>\n

I feel like I might have been able to answer some of these questions back when I was a Republican, but that was a very long time ago and I honestly can\u2019t remember what I thought then or if I even did. Now I don\u2019t care because I tend to disagree with Republicans and anti-science types on more things than not.<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, I must set aside passivity this week because I read an article on the Apple news feed on my iPhone (I\u2019ll be twixed if I can remember what the source was because all those articles are blurbs and they refresh about every five minutes so that nobody can keep track of them) and the author\u2019s main point seemed to be that religion is a major contributing factor in coronavirus spread because religious people do not consume science in portions equal to the recommend daily allowance in their intellectual diets.<\/p>\n

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