Science and Religion Join Together?

This tweet from the NYT green blog caught my eye:

At a Protest, Science and Religion Team Up nyti.ms/13AWQo3

— NYT Green Blog (@nytimesgreen) January 16, 2013

What? Have the atheist police been alerted?  This is something they ought to know about. Here’s the opener to that news item:

Science and religion went hand-in-hand on Tuesday as leaders from both worlds gathered in front of the White House to protest what they cast as government inaction on climate change.

Hand in hand! OMG. That’s like an accommodationist love-in. Well, all kidding aside, what this appears to have been is not a gathering of secular scientists and religious folk, but an “inter-faith”-led march to the White House (called a “pray-in for the climate”). So the Times piece seems a tad misleading.

Interestingly, one of the religious leaders it quoted doesn’t sound keen on getting too close to science (my emphasis):

“This gathering today is to affirm that God has gifted us in many ways, one of which is a good mind to figure out how things are going,” said Bob Coleman, the chief programming minister of the Riverside Church in New York City. “It’s not so much an embrace of science, but an acknowledgement that science is a part of us, it’s a part of our own living every day.”

Kinda sounds like he’s trying to reconcile science with his own beliefs. Is that acceptable?’

[Source: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.]