When faith clashes with science, it’s no contest

Many Christians doubt their faith, as this writer once did, or abandon it altogether due to clashes between religious tenets and scientific findings. What often happens, though, is not so much that faith is hogwash, but that the faithful’s spiritual knowledge has not kept pace with the increasing sophistication of their secular learning.

Countless believers never go beyond Sunday school in their religious knowledge, and many others have no religion classes in college, just when their secular studies soar to university heights. So when that worldly knowledge seems to contradict religious beliefs, the latter lose almost by default, seeming primitive or superstitious.