Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.