Are Religious Kids Meaner or Nicer? A Christian sociologist responds to two closely followed but contradictory studies and what they tell us about science. The contradictory studies raise larger questions about the role of research in understand the social world around us as well as the church. Flawed science like one of these study provides justification for those of us who would ignore research. These studies also feed a distrust (common among some Christians) of “secularized science.”
