Jesse Bering writes:

Researchers have found that, at least when it comes to what goes on in our own heads, there’s not much of a conflict between religion and science. Sure, that bad case of strep throat your kid got right before your scheduled vacation to Barbados was caused by her chewing on a virus-laden pencil she’d borrowed in math class. . . . But that doesn’t mean God’s not trying to tell you something by–what’s the best word here–‘authoring’ these events. . . . this way of thinking as “co-existence reasoning,” where natural, scientific forces are viewed as directly causing a certain event, but supernatural forces are perceived simultaneously as somehow blowing life into this science. Another way to say this is that science and God often co-exist harmoniously in the same mindset, with science acting ‘proximally’ and God acting ‘distally.’ . . .

This looks interesting but I can’t quite figure out what the experimental findings are. I’ll have to try to track down the researcher who did the study.