Reddit mentions of Let There Be Science: Why God Loves Science, and Science Needs God

/u/PacificBaroness You should try to be gentle, but nip this in the bud. Inaction will lead to him becoming more and more set in his ways. Confront him and calmly demand he defend his position rationally. Just keep asking questions, and avoid open statements. Say things like - did you know there are literally hundreds of famous scientists who are priests. And Science used to be about understanding God's creation - until it was invaded and taken over by an ideology that hates God and likes to pretend we hate science.

You should tell him about how:

• Science has barely anything to say about religion. Science is concerned with the material world and CANNOT make statements about God - who is literally outside of the universe. It's not a matter of trusting one or the other, since:
  
• There are scientific experiments in the actual Bible
  
• Science was fostered by Christianity. The Church build its biggest and best universities, fostering free speech. Oxford University was founded by Christians - as were many others.
  
• The Vatican owns some of the oldest scientific establishments. And their official site is here.
  
• Most Noble Prizes are held by Christians.
  
• The Church funds science, and has done since the beginning. They funded science back in the middle ages - including some of the first experiments into surgery.
  
• Priests have very often been scientists. A priest came up with Big Bang Theory. Atheists rejected the Big Bang originally because they thought it sounded like a 'moment of Biblical creation'. They now pretend it doesn't seem like that. Big Bang theory rocked atheism - which has always gravitated towards theories like 'the Solid State universe', where everything is unchanging and has no beginning. (I.e. 'it was always like this, and always will be')
  
• People literally lied to him saying that science and Christianity are opposed. Science has nothing to say about religion, but the 'other book of the Bible' is science.
  
• The Vatican accepts Evolution as true - and has done since the 1940s. The accepted the Big Bang theory over a decade before 'rational atheist scientists' could accept the universe had a begining. St Augustine himself cautioned that Genesis shouldn't be taken literally. It's a clearly metaphorical story laden with allegory - meanwhile the stories of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus take place in named locations. We also have proof they happened www.reasonablefaith.com
  
• The trend in science is now turning back towards faith. Most quantum scientists are Deists, last I checked. The reason is that Quantum physics destroys materialism.
  
  Everything from the moment of creation to the setting of rules like gravity would have to be absolutely perfect in order for us to exist. Every constant - from gravity to the strength with which atoms are held together - had to be very finely tuned for us to even have a bunch of dead rocks floating in space. For us to have life too.... that's a miracle on top of a miracle on top of a recurring tower of miracles that atheists want us to believe stacked ITSELF up. That's just daft. The universe is so unlikely, in of itself, that it's impossible it arose by chance. And that's before you bring life into it. Atheists get uncomfortable when you point out we evolved from rocks and dead water because the idea that there are rules set in place that allow this to happen imply that there's a God.