Evangelicals surprising view of science and what it may mean

[Igel]

50. I don't know how they define "evangelical."

I've known a lot of anti-science religious non-evangelicals. More than evangelicals, to be honest.

And among many evangelicals, I don't know what they think of as science.

Or that they're in any way fundamentally different than non-evangelicals who are anti-vaxxers or believe that GMO or glyphosate are going to destroy the world. Everybody comes up with reasons for what they believe about science. Often, they're reasons of convenience. And often that reason of convenience is "Because God says so" (or at least the guy who stood up and said God says so, given the generally abysmal state of bible and creedal ignorance among the "Jesus is my boyfriend" crowd).

In other words, I don't know how much to trust the data. That's the thing about large scale surveys. There's a trade off between precision and detail in understanding the data and making sure the data set is comprehensive and large enough to make distinctions significant.