Why the Supposed Conflict Between Science and Religion is Tragic Nonsense

Friends, in a very real sense, the modern physical sciences came from religion. The great founders of science -- Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, etc. -- were, without exception, trained in ecclesially sponsored schools and universities. It was under the aegis of the church that they took in their physics, their astronomy, and their mathematics. More specifically, they learned in those institutions two essentially theological truths necessary for the emergence of the experimental sciences -- namely, that the universe is not God and that the universe, in every nook and cranny, is marked by intelligibility.