Neil deGrasse Tyson on Whether Science and Religion Are Compatible

I thought Neil deGrasse Tyson might offer something of a wishy-washy answer on this question of science versus religion… and I was halfway right.

In short, if your religion makes testable claims that go against scientific reality, you’re going to suffer severe cognitive dissonance. There’s no overlap there. Right on! Totally agree.

If your religion embraces science, he added, you’ll be okay.

The problem is that he said those fundamentalists in the first group represented just a minority of belie...