A multidisciplinary team of academics has been awarded £1.8 million by the Templeton Religion Trust to investigate public perceptions of science and religion. Project leader Fern Elsdon-Baker of Newman University,Birmingham, explains how they will spend the money In recent years an acceptance of Darwinism has increasingly become synonymous with atheism, while its rejection is often seen as a component of religious belief. The polarising mainstream representation of these ideas can be caricatured as two warring camps: atheism and by proxy a rational world view versus an anti-scientific, pre-Enlightenment version of religion.One problem we have in countering these established prejudicial narratives is that there has been little research that explores what the public thinks about the