Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different from the creationists or intelligent design proponents is that I find knowledge a compelling reason to believe in God. They find ignorance a compelling reason to believe in God.