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.

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

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

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

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

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.