American public denies scientific consensus for religious reasons. In terms of advanced industrialized nations, the United States is the most religious. A 2009 study from the Pew Research Center on Americans perceptions of science, showed a broad consensus that most Americans, including most religious Americans, hold scientific research and scientists themselves in high regard. The study showed that 84% of Americans say they view science as having a mostly positive impact on society. Among those who attend religious services at least once a week, the number is roughly the same at 80%. Furthermore, 70% of U.S. adults think scientists contribute "a lot" to society. A 2011 study on a national sample of US college students examined whether these students viewed the science / religion relationship as reflecting primarily conflict, collaboration, or independence. The study concluded that the majority of undergraduates in both the natural and social sciences do not see conflict between science and religion. Another finding in the study was that it is more likely for students to move away from a conflict perspective to an independence or collaboration perspective than towards a conflict view. In the US, people who had no religious affiliation were no more likely than the religious population to have New Age beliefs and practices. See also Conflict thesis Continuity thesis Deep ecology Demarcation problem Faith and rationality Issues in Science and Religion List of scholars on the relationship between religion and science Merton thesis Natural theology Philosophy of science Politicization of science Religious skepticism Psychology of religion Scientific method and religion Theistic evolution By tradition: Baháʼí Faith and science Buddhism and science Catholic Church and science & Catholic Church and evolution Islam and science List of atheists in science and technology List of Catholic scientists List of Christians in science and technology List of nonreligious Nobel laureates Parson-naturalist Quakers in science In the US: American Scientific Affiliation Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Creation–evolution controversy Intelligent design John Templeton Foundation References Sources Barbour, Ian. When Science Meets Religion. San Francisco: Harper, 2000. Barbour, Ian. Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues. San Francisco: Harper, 1997. Chu, Dominique (2013), The Science Myth – God, society, the self and what we will never know, Drummond, Henry. Natural Law in the Spiritual World. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 29th Edition, 1890 Haught, John F. Science & Religion: From Conflict to Conversation. Paulist Press, 1995. Jones, Richard