As a Catholic - and one who believes strongly in God - I also accept science. I don't believe we, as humans, are anywhere close to understanding all that God has created. Science is only uncovering what God has created, bit-by-bit and trying to apply it as best we mere humans can. For us to draw a line in the sand and say "this is where God started" is pretty egotistical on our part."I have been struck, Dr. Roughgarden writes, by how the debate over teaching evolution is not about plants and animals but about God and whether science somehow threatens one's belief in God.
Or as Dr. Collins put it, when religions require belief in fundamentally flawed claims about the world, they force curious and intelligent congregants to reject science, effectively committing intellectual suicide, a choice he calls "terrible and unnecessary".
But does science require the abandonment of faith? Not necessarily, and certainly not entirely, these authors argue."
A favorite, recent joke I read:
Two scientist come before God and announce, "We have found the ability to create life without you. We no longer need you." God responds, "Show Me."
The scientists reach down and collect dirt to place in their beaker in which to grow "life" and start their process. At this point God says, "Get your own dirt!"
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