More than half of all teenagers in Church of England secondary schools believe that science makes it hard to believe in God, according to a major survey published in early July.
Conducted among more than 2,000 15–18-year-olds, the survey discovered that two in every five (41%) believe that the accepted scientific view is that God does not exist, while many students suppose that all scientists are atheists.
The results of the survey were presented at ‘Cosmology: the beginning, the end and the vast’, a conference at St John’s College, Durham. The event was designed to equip church leaders to understand both the opportunities and challenges they face in an age of science.
