Chuck Colson recently wrote an article on the supposed conflict between science and Christianity. The article, We've Been Lied To: Christianity and the Rise of Science, discusses some of the most common misconceptions regarding scientific thought, Christianity, and the Enlightenment. Modern science was only possible in Western Civilization, through the changes brought about by the Renesaince and the Enlightenment, because of Christianity.

That’s because Christianity depicted God as a “rational, responsive, dependable, and omnipotent being” who created a universe with a “rational, lawful, stable” structure. These beliefs uniquely led to “faith in the possibility of science.”

Colson also correctly points out the reason why science and Christianity have been put at odds with each other.

So why the Columbus myth? Because, as Stark writes, “the claim of an inevitable and bitter warfare between religion and science has, for more than three centuries, been the primary polemical device used in the atheist attack of faith.” Opponents of Christianity have used bogus accounts like the ones I’ve mentioned not only to discredit Christianity, but also to position themselves as “liberators” of the human mind and spirit.

However, this perception has been made worse by Christians. Many of our fellow Christians have denied the connection between science and faith. The perception that science is anti-faith is perpetuated by us just as much as it is by athiests. Remember, the God of this world created our ability to reason and to discover how this world works. It's time that Christians bring a balanced viewpoint back to the interaction between faith and science.