7. Are Science and Faith Enemies?

Statistics indicate that scientists are three times less likely to attend weekly religious services than non-scientists. Less than ten percent of American scientists believe in a personal God. To atheist Richard Dawkins these statistics prove "that the more intelligent, rational, and scientifically minded you are, the less you will be able to believe in God." Is that so? Does science favor unbelief?

And is it also true that Christians must reject science? Is science another religion that believers must separate from in order to stay true to God?

As we wrestle with these questions we need to remember that both faith and science depend on revelation. God reveals himself in Scripture and nature and both special and general revelation form a coherent testimony. God doesn't send mixed messages. Science and Faith are friends not enemies. Apparent inconsistencies indicate not God's failure to reveal himself but our failure to rightly read God.

So both believers and unbelievers must take seriously God's revelation in nature and in Scripture. Our mutual failure to do so has resulted in and widened the breach between science and faith.