When do science and faith collide?

Answer 1

Science and Faith collide when science explains that things in creation came about by means other than God created them and brought them into existence. An example is "God said let us create man in our own image" where science says we evolved from Apes. Faith is not a scientific method or formula because it is based on what cannot be seen, yet. Science says look what I found and how I came up with how this came to be by what I see and have learned about it.

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CRASH!

[No serious science teaches that we evolved from Apes. To intelligently refute a theory, there is no substitute for adequate understanding as a basic prerequisite.] Science and faith collide when either of two things happens.

• When scientists believe that the concerns of people of faith are worthless, when they take it upon themselves to argue against or disprove the positions of people of faith, and when they consider believers' thoughtful and insightful criticisms of modern scientific methods unworthy of attention. And when scientists fail to realize that science is a problem-solving heuristic that cannot of itself arrive at any absolute truth at the deepest levels of theory.
• When people of faith get defensive over the observations that some things in the physical world appear not to be in keeping with their authoritative religious teachings and materials, when they attempt to limit, direct or thwart the efforts of scientists who are trying to understand the nature of physical reality, and when they fail to grasp that if their faith and beliefs are true, then they have nothing to fear from science, which will ultimately shed light on the truth against all efforts to the contrary.

In short, science and faith are not enemies. Go a little deeper. Push. Science is as much about the wonder of not knowing as it is about the joys of discovery. From a scientific point of view, there is probably nothing that is completely beyond question. People of faith, get down to it and tackle the meaty subject of faith. What is it? Where does it bring you? How do you know that you have it? Can you force someone to have it who hasn't been given it by God? Can anyone force God to give faith to an individual when God has opted not to?