With some trepidation, I need to quote two bits of the Bible that I find relevant to this thread, because I think there is an important different between them. The scene for the first is that Jesus has been asked what is the greatest commandment and, according to Luke:

He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbour as yourself.'"

Now, this is often said to be a quotation from Deuteronomy, which says:

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength."


(Quotations over!)

But it isn't, quite. The New Testament version adds in an 'all your mind' that is not in the Old Testament version. Now, what does that mean? In my interpretation, that means we have to all our mental abilities to try to figure out what on earth all this is about. And that is in religion and science. And indeed in art and literature and every single thing that tells us anything about the world or each other. Someone who claims to be a Christian but denies science is, to my way of thinking, going against this greatest commandment.

Food for thought, anyway.