Back when I was a student in a Catholic seminary in the 1960's, I heard a quote that really struck me - but I haven't been able to find it since. It might have come from Galileo; but then again, maybe not. Anyhow, it went something like this:

There are God's works, and there are God's words. If they contradict each other, then perhaps we do not understand God's words correctly.

I see God as the creator of the rules of science - and I believe that creation took place through wonderful, miraculous, NATURAL processes. When preachers attempt to deny the well-proven findings of science, I tend not to believe the preachers.

But I would think that thinking religious people and thinking scientific people should be able to get along quite well - it's the mindless ideologues on both sides that cause the conflict.

-Joe-