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December 16, 2011

The Case for Ethics, Religion in Science Class

Arri Eisen, CNN Belief


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A referendum that would have restricted in vitro fertilization in Mississippi, disagreements on the causes of global warming, the question of how to allot health care resources for desperate cases at the beginning or end of life.

Many of today's headlines and hyper-polarized political debates happen at the borders of science and society, especially where science meets ethics and religion.

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TAGGED: science and religion, ethics, science education

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